But wait, it's actually even worse-
Since total return data started in 1988 (this includes dividends):
Capital has outperformed labor by 2,460% (25.6x)
If wages had kept pace with the total stock market return, the average hourly wage would be $828 per hour
Yes, really.
AOC: “There’s a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned. You can’t earn a billion dollars. You just can’t earn that. You can get market power, you can break rules, you can abuse labor laws, you can pay people less than what they’re worth, but you can’t earn that”
In 1892, desperate for European culture, an American conservatory paid $$ for composer Antonin Dvorak, known for incorporating folk melodies into his work, to become director. He hears spirituals weekly and is struck by "Swing Low Sweet Chariot. " Then he tells a newspaper
I will never understand how so many of y’all were hoodwinked into believing the government should not use the money you pay in taxes to create a social safety net that benefits you, fund public healthcare, lower housing costs, and make daily life more affordable.
Rapper Toosil Responds to gay allegations making it clear that calling someone gay is not an insult 🌈:
"Calling somebody gay is not an insult. people try to use it as an insult, but it's people's sexuality. And whatever somebody's sexuality is, it's not an insult. So don't try to throw it on a black man to down him because you feel like that's gonna,that's not gonna bring me down. What bring me down is the fact that you trying to use it as an insult while I got my son in my hand and knowing that one of these days he gonna have to get on the internet and see this.
I don't need nothing misleading. Like, oh dad, is this wrong? Like, is it? Nah, it's not wrong, son. At the end of the day, like you got some people who like women and you got some people who like men, son, and that's how it is.
please let gay men have bad style and be effeminate. not everywhere is Bushwick! there are normal gays out there who go to the One gay bar in their state and tip their wallet to queens who say “the more you drink the prettier I look” vital to the great ecosystem of queerness!
"When I started out on Broadway, 'Dreamgirls,' we lost half of our cast to AIDS."
Sheryl Lee Ralph—famous for her breakout role in the original Broadway production of 'Dreamgirls' and her ongoing portrayal of the no-nonsense kindergarten teacher on the sitcom 'Abbott Elementary'—champions another kind of teaching through her decades-long work as an activist, particularly raising awareness about HIV/AIDS.
Recently, in collaboration with the DIVA Foundation, the nonprofit she founded in 1990, Ralph executive-produced documentary special 'Living Proof' which highlights the experiences of Black women living with HIV in the South. Leading by example, Sheryl Lee Ralph is honored among TIME's 16 Women of the Year. Read her story and meet the honorees here: https://t.co/8O891bum4K
I don’t think people understand how revolutionary Planet Earth was when it came out. It’s arguably one of the most important British TV productions ever. Like I actually can’t think of one series more epic than Planet Earth.
Nixon was forced to resign the Presidency, the first person ever to do so, because he covered up a botched break-in to steal some intel from his opposition. The GOP itself turned on him. They knew there were lines a President can't cross.
50 yrs later, they're hiding child rape.
I genuinely think that our purpose as humans in the eco system was to care for all the other species. Why else would humans have the capabilities of projecting emotions and empathy onto literally anything? It's because we were supposed to care. And now? All we do is destroy.
We built Jikipedia, a new wiki that compiles Jmail data into exhaustive reports on key figures in the Epstein scandal.
It lists all recorded visits to Epstein's estates, each person's possible knowledge of Epstein's crimes and laws that they may have violated.
Here is Epstein's executive assistant, who sent >100k emails to him and was shielded from prison via a 2007 non-prosecution deal.
nurses strike in nyc, teachers strike in sf, even ice backed away from minneapolis. if the democrats won’t do it, well do it ourselves. now is the time for organizing. ordinary people have incredible bargaining power when they’re united!