Roberta Inscho’s Reviews > Fight Oligarchy > Status Update

The pattern, from then to now, remains the same. Deflect attention away from the causes and solutions of the major crisis facing society by creating fear and uncertainty, blaming an “other,” and proposing and implementing harsh remedies… your satisfaction, comes not from an improvement in your quality of life, but by making others lives worse.

Despite an explosion of technology over the last 50 years, and a huge increase in worker productivity, the average American worker today is making less each week than he or she did in 1973, after adjusting for inflation.