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Supertopics:
The Claim that Rich People Deserve to Be Rich
Most Wealth Goes to the Top
Plutocracy
The Rich Tend to Get Richer

The Rules Are Rigged (to shift wealth to the rich)

Subtopics:
Finance as a Money-Skimming Scheme
Stock Market Money-Skimming
Excessive Bank Fees
Needless Middlemen Skimming Profits
Much Wealth is Inherited
Thomas Piketty's Book 'Capital in the 21st Century'
upper-class people credit their inherent superiority
webMatthew HutsonSlate2014-01-03
Dean Baker's 'The Conservative Nanny State'
webDean Baker2006-05-01
class mobility in the USA has decreased
webPaul KrugmanThe Nation2004-01-05
Corporations Avoid Paying Costs (Externalization)
Government Subsidies to Corporations
Exporting US Coal to Externalize Its Pollution Costs
corporations behind lead paint will not clean it up
webTik RootMother Jones
it's difficult to obtain black lung benefits
webDavid HasemyerInsideClimate News2017-09-07
oil fracking bust leaves states with massive well cleanup
webPaul J. WeberAssociated Press2016-06-19
why hydroelectric power is not cheap or clean
webGary WocknerEcoWatch2016-02-23
some history of US intervention in Syra
webRobert F. Kennedy, JrEcoWatch2016-02-25
trickery claims economic growth on same resource use
webGeorge MonbiotThe Guardian2015-11-24
today's technofetishism and the retro future
webJohn Michael GreerArchdruid Report2015-04-16
peak resources means peak centralization
webCharles EisensteinOil Drum2011-09-08
Taxpayers Are Forced to Prop Up the Stock Market
Government Bailouts Pump Up the Stock Market
The Fed's Low Interest Rates to Prop Up the Stock Market
carmaker bailout collapses over union wages
webJulie Hirschfeld Davis and Ken...Associated Press2008-12-11
The Occupy Movement (We Are the 99%)
Occupy Movement Articles By Date
The Occupy Movement By Location
Strategy for the Occupy Movement
My Occupy Movement Stuff
Tea Partiers Versus Occupiers
The Danger of Co-Optation of the Occupy Movement
The Rules Are Rigged Miscellany
a game where some begin with a huge advantage
webJen Sorensen2018-01-02
a motivation for accelerating global warming
webStephan Pastis2017-11-02
Dean Baker's book 'Rigged'
webDean Baker2016-01-01
democracies most efficiently shift wealth to the elites
webWalden BelloForeign Policy in Focus2014-12-05
the 85 richest have as much as the 3.5 billion poorest
webOxfam2014-01-20
Hightower on how the rules are rigged
webJim Hightower2012-01-02
the plutocrats will string us along forever
webPhil RockstrohNation of Change2011-12-10
the view that inequality is legitimate is waning
webGlenn GreenwaldTomDispatch2011-10-25
Dean Baker's 'The End of Loser Liberalism'
webDean Baker2011-01-01
Dean Baker's 'The Conservative Nanny State'
webDean Baker2006-05-01