Workers need a bold vision to bring about a more equitable society
For the past 45 years,
just about all of the income gains of America’s increasing productivity have
gone to the elite and upper-middle class, while real worker wages have remained roughly flat. Today,
the top one-tenth percent of earners, those earning more than $1.5m a year, own
as much of the nation’s wealth as the entire bottom 90%.
This obscene concentration of wealth, the likes of which hasn’t been seen since
the Great Depression, is unsustainable and a threat to our democracy.
To understand how such
extreme inequality has emerged, one must consider the role of race in forging
political alignments.
Hidden in plain sight – and too often ignored by progressives – has been the
use of strategic
racism to consolidate economic and political power for the few at the
expense of everyone else. This strategy coerces the white working class to
maintain the status quo and sacrifice their vertical positioning of growing
personal inequality in exchange for the solidification of racial hierarchies
and maintenance of white dominance in society....
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/27/workers-need-a-bold-vision-to-bring-about-a-more-equitable-society
