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  • late stage capitalism McDonald's will drop opposition to increases in the federal minimum wage Cory Doctorow
  • class war CEO-to-worker wage gap yawns ever wider, hitting 312:1 in 2017, up by 17.6% Cory Doctorow
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  • class war The majority of US workers live in "employment monopsonies" where there is little or no competition for workers Cory Doctorow
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  • debt High prices and debt mean millennials don't plan to stop renting, and that's before their parents retire and become dependent on them Cory Doctorow
  • corruption Nobel-winning economist Joe Stiglitz calls neoliberalism "a failed ideology" and sketches out a "progressive capitalism" to replace it Cory Doctorow
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  • twitter Chase's idiotic poverty-shaming "inspirational" tweet, and Twitter users' magnificent responses thereto Cory Doctorow
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  • class war In LA, the teachers of America's largest school district are on strike Cory Doctorow
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  • late stage capitalism Mass protests against IMF austerity force Jordan's Prime Minister to resign Cory Doctorow
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