![]() ![]() Workers must form worker-run cooperatives.When workers make the decisions, you stop outsourcing jobs, you stop the wealth gap, you stop inequality.So the solution is to equitably distribute profits in the first place. You won’t solve any problems by redistributing: Even if you have progressive income tax, the rich will always figure out a way to hide their fortune in overseas tax shelters. So to change inequality in our nation, we must change the organization of the workplace.They would vote for equitable distribution. Now, do you think workers would vote to unequally redistribute profits? Of course not.After all, profit is merely surplus value of labor, and that belongs to all workers. If you don’t want inequality, don’t unequally redistribute it in the first place: Workers must equitably distribute all profit equally to all workers.The wealth gap between rich and poor is the result of a board of directors dividing up the profits and keeping the lion’s share for themselves.Would workers vote to pollute their own air and water and poison their own kids just to make an extra nickel in profit? Of course not. ![]() Workers must control the workplace: If workers made the decisions, do you really think they would vote to outsource their own jobs to China? Of course not.I say it is time to bring democracy to the workplace. Workers are forced to live with their decisions, yet have no voice in such decisions. A corporation has a tiny minority of people at the top, executives and the board of directors, who make all the decisions.Quotes Global Capitalism Monthly Update (12 March 2014) Global Capitalism Monthly Update at Youtube, 12 March 2014. 1.4 COVID-19 and the Failures of Capitalism (2020).1.3 Wolff responds to Trump's "State of the Union" address (6 February 2019).1.2 We Need a More Humane Economic System-Not One That Only Benefits the Rich (December 26, 2018).1.1 Global Capitalism Monthly Update (12 March 2014). ![]()
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