Richard Wolff is an economist who has studied class issues for more than 40 years. In this animation and audio presentation, Wolff explains what class is all about and applies that understanding to the foreclosure crisis of 2007--2011. He argues that class concerns the "way our society splits up the output [and] leaves those who get the profits in the position of deciding and figuring out what to do with them... We all live with the results of what a really tiny minority in our society decides to do with the profits everybody produces." As you watch and listen, consider what we know from research about disease and illness patterns among groups with lower income, more stress, and less control of their lives. Consider how investment decisions in neighborhoods, over transportation, school facilities, parks, location of grocery stores, quality of affordable housing, etc. influenced by powerful interests, affect the quality of life for large segments of the population.
http://rdwolff.com/ This video was produced by the National Association of County and City Public Health Officals (NACCHO) as a part of thier Roots of Health Inequality Project. The project is a web-based course for the public health workforce and "How Class Works" is one section of the course.
http://www.rootsofhealthinequity.org/...
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JanuariVery interesting video... and links. Thanks for posting!
chingaleraSeems a logical next-step to fastidiously render the 'really tiny minority in our society' into dog food. The 'elite' are a cancer: Irradiate them, excise them, and place their offspring in the prisons they've built for us.
To these unseen perpetrators of the destruction of the planet and the souls and spirits of us regular folks should be delivered a message for future generations in the form of say, a monument. Yes, a monument similar to the wall of names of the fallen in wars (lest we forget)-
Here includes the names of all the wealthiest families the fascist human refuse that they are, their offspring, their legacy of anti-creation, anti-humanity, anti-life-
These people need to be annihilated, and the memory of their existence forever burned into the collective unconscious.
Destroy the fruits of their crimes and most importantly, end their bloodlines. Bury them, burn them, kill them all.
Otherwise, the planets' fucked.
enoch@chingalera
dont hold back man......
chicchorea...indeed interesting...and plausible until the social responsibility assertion and then I submit is self servingly fallacious.
While the shift in the philosophy of credit extension toward an apparent willingness to loss did and has manifested. The motivational constructs and the short sighted and destructive willingness to assume unqualified, even destructive debt, on the part of the consuming public is symptomatic of far deeper and more insidious origins, both external and internal, than the rather simplistic exposition of wage evolution...
One might look globally for a fuller understanding.
...but then what do I know about it...less than nothing.
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