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365 | Michael Lind: How the Suppression of Wages is Destroying America

The Realignment

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How to Pay: The New Class War and the Overclass

Michael Lind's new book, How to Pay, is a follow-up to his previous work The New Class War. He argues that in the 20th century we transitioned from a bourgeois owner operator capitalist economy to one with enormous bureaucracies and access to these through college diplomas. His argument is that it's worker powers which have been systematically destroyed over the last 50 years by business lobbies or government-cloited Democrats and Republicans.

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