The single largest form of theft in America is wage theft. $50 billion a year are stolen from American workers.
If a billionaire amasses their wealth by underpaying their full-time workers so severely that they must rely on food assistance and government programs to survive, then no, that wealth was not earned by one individual - it was a wealth transfer subsidized by underpaid American workers and the public who get stuck with the bill for large corporations free-riding off our systems.
The point is less about individual morality. It’s more about how our current economic reality of shattering inequality rewards screwing over workers and exploiting essential systems at scale.
We’re talking monopoly power. Rent-seeking. Wage theft. Profiteering. Stock buybacks. Destabilizing housing markets. Companies using SNAP/EBT to underwrite their wages. Massive government subsidies or contracts to corporations following lobbying and dark money in politics with little to no oversight or accountability.
Some people get enraged that I draw attention to this. That’s on them. Let them call me shrill, dumb, inexperienced, girly, uneducated - these folks will say anything to distract from or undercut the truth that working people are getting screwed, and giving people a fair shake means we must have a grown conversation about reigning in abuse of power.
Again, still playing catchup on the website, if you missed it, here is the first part of our dream series on Where Did the Road Go? - Fringe Radio!
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Still playing catch up on episodes of Where Did the Road Go? - Fringe Radio! Here is a wandering the road show with Barbara A. Fisher and A.P. Strange! Available whenever you listen to podcasts!
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There are a bunch of Where Did the Road Go? - Fringe Radio episodes up that I have not posted about. This is the next one on the list, Chris G, from New Zealand and Chris Ernst wander the road with me. Listen wherever you listen to podcasts or on YouTube! https://t.co/mFXPelZSRH
Still catching up on these! Robert Guffey on Where Did the Road Go? - Fringe Radio from back in April!
Available wherever you listen to podcasts!
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New episode of Where Did the Road Go? - Fringe Radio available now wherever you listen to podcasts and on YouTube. This is a wandering the road episode with Christopher Ernst and Mat Festa...
https://t.co/QBzSr3O2Vy
I wrote this last night, it also is the first thing I published in my Substack. This just came to me after reading back a dream from May of 2024.
The Road Goes on Forever... https://t.co/kt4Flb8wY7