Robert ReichHow can Democrats regain the working class?
By fighting corporate America's ability to:
—raise prices higher than their increasing costs.
—suppress wages and bust unions.
—bribe lawmakers to cut their taxes and dole out corporate welfare.
The Evil Writer@rbreich Enforcing antitrust laws, enacting universal healthcare, pushing our infrastructure to universal basic necessities (not income, the necessities themselves should be publicly funded and available,) targeting climate change legislation at the actual perpetrators in ways that improve lives for workers instead of restricting them (no more straw bans, instead green power grids,) and enforcing pro-union laws. Plus a lot of things I'm no doubt forgetting.
We'd have a Dem supermajority.
bsoist@EvilWriter I’m intrigued by publicly funded essentials as a replacement for (or in addition to) universal basic income. Where might you recommend I start reading more about it. @rbreich
@bsoist @rbreich The problem with UBI is that your landlord can just raise your rent, or other corporations could just raise prices. Universal Basic Necessities is better because you can't jack up the price.
"Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto" by Aaron Bastani is a good basic overview. I don't agree with all of it, but it makes the central point well that, with current technology, we could provide all necessities at a fraction of their current cost and in abundance.