“When Republicans recently charged the President with promoting 'class warfare,' he answered it was 'just math.' But it's more than math. It's a matter of morality. Republicans have posed the deepest moral question of any society: whether we're all in it together. Their answer is we're not. President Obama should proclaim, loudly and clearly, we are.” PoliticsUnited StatesSocietyMoralityEconomicsMathematicsLiberalismConservatismClass WarfareBarack ObamaRepublican Party United States Author:Robert B. Reich
“Americans have clung to the meritocratic tautology that individuals are paid what they’re worth in the market, without examining changes in the legal and political institutions that define the market. This tautology is easily confused with a moral claim that people deserve what they are paid. Yet this claim is meaningful only if the system’s legal and political institutions are morally just. It has lured us into thinking nothing can or should be done to alter what people are paid because the market has decreed it. By this logic, the oligarchy is natural and inevitable.” PhilosophyPoliticsEconomicsSystemsWage Labor Book:The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It Source: The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It