
Survival of the Richest
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A fresh look at economic inequality in America
Survival of the Richest scrutinizes how the collective wealth of America has been channeled from the poor and middle class into the hands of a few elitists.
American industry has been gutted, with wages and benefits stagnant or reduced, thanks to a disastrous trade deals, outsourcing, and the crippling of unions. The Occupy Wall Street movement, and the presidential campaigns of both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, reveals how more and more people who are struggling understand that the system is rigged against them.
While Americans have been trained to direct their scorn at welfare recipients and the poor in general, a tiny handful of plutocratic elites have profited on an unfathomable scale through corporate welfare and other perks. Unimaginable salaries and bonuses for the One Percent, contrasted by layoffs and reduced pay for the majority of the workforce, along with increasing calls for austerity measures and lowered standards of living, has become the "new normal" in America.
Donald Jeffries argues that this record economic inequality is more than an unintended consequence of globalism. In Survival of the Richest, he shows how the consolidation of wealth may well prove to be the greatest conspiracy of all.
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Richard Syrett is a veteran radio and television broadcaster based in Toronto, and a frequent guest-host on Coast to Coast AM.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Are They Worth It?
- Chapter 2: Deindustrialization and Free Trade
- Chapter 3: Part-Time Jobs
- Chapter 4: Special Perks of the Wealthy
- Chapter 5: Hating the Poor
- Chapter 6: Huey Long
- Chapter 7: Does Anyone Even Care?
- Chapter 8: How Failure Keeps Succeeding
- Chapter 9: The Third-World Standard
- Chapter 10: Natural Talent
- Chapter 11: The Good Old Days
- Chapter 12: Why What Pays What
- Chapter 13: Profits Before Progress
- Chapter 14: Keeping the Masses Down
- Chapter 15: The Best and the Brightest
- Chapter 16: No Admissions, No Gratitude
- Chapter 17: The Future of Wealth Distribution
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index
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