Thread by @CelesteHeadlee

If corporations really succeeded or failed in a fair marketplace, they wouldn't need to hire lobbyists or get subsidies or tax breaks.

Some like to say that laborers fall into poverty because of laziness and don't deserve a safety net. But if the big corporations were people, they would be the biggest moochers of all time.

The more research I do into Reconstruction, the more I realize that a big motivator behind the Civil War was the demand that wealthy people have the legal right to completely control their workers.

Legal slavery may have ended with the 13th Amendment, but wage slavery is alive and well.

The federal govt spends nearly $900 million dollars a year on corporate welfare. So, if corporations are people, they are the most dependent, lazy, needy people I know. They should have to pee in a cup to get their tax credits.

harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-132/…

The same corporations that get tens of millions in subsidies, without contributing much in taxes, go to DC and complain about regulations. Yet, people think it's fair to make a regular worker take a drug test to get a few dollars in food assistance?

commonwealthfoundation.org/research/corpo…

By the way, the US govt gave 100s of millions of acres of our land (native land, actually) to corporations at the same time they told formerly enslaved people that they couldn't afford to just hand out land. Told them to fend for themselves.

So, get out of here with that "labor unions are greedy" and someone who refuses to work unless they're being paid is "quiet quitting." Nearly every conflict and law in this nation is founded on a desire to control the lives of the workforce.

My book Do Nothing suggests that capitalism replaced religion in the US. Brand logos are our religious icons. The belief that economic growth is an unqualified good amounts to a doctrine of faith.
penguinrandomhouse.com/books/603998/d…

Laws in this country are often designed to limit the ability of workers to decide their own hours, set their own wages, keep the profits from their work. We don't benefit from our own hard work. Since 1979, productivity went up 65%, wages rose 17%
epi.org/productivity-p…

The average worker earned $241/week in 1979. Today, it's $998/week.
The average CEO earned $29,000/week in 1979.
Today, it's $313,461.
Worker pay has risen 17%
CEO pay has risen 1,322%

epi.org/publication/ce…

It amazes me that the campaign is #fightfor15.
If our weekly wage increased the same amount that CEO pay did, the average weekly income would be $318,602.
Let's fight for $318,602 a week.

Thank you for your attention. Daily rant against injustice is now concluded.

Quite a coincidence that this just showed up in my timeline. This is what I'm talking about.

https://twitter.com/EusiNdugu/status/1643200422725730306?s=20