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The Leisure Class Is Winning. The Rest of Us Are Suffering.

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If the sanitation workers disappear, it would be an unholy mess, our cities unlivable. Why is the baseball player paid so highly while the sanitation worker is not?

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It’s about time that a candidate for president declared warfare on the super-rich. Bernie Sanders is doing it with delicious fervor, and like FDR, he has welcomed the hatred of oligarch billionaires and their apologists.

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