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Ra Hendricks's avatar

‘When the going gets tough, the billionaires/überrich get going!’

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Andre Shumpert's avatar

True Professor Reich stubborn immorality persists where billionaires fool bigots into carrying out a falsely manufactured agenda. It’s a continuation of cynical narcissism exposed in the former and foolhardy savagery displayed in the latter.

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Critical Perspectives's avatar

To be clear - I know nothing about Reich's morality or lack of it. Neither am I suggesting that white South Africans are bigots. I am trying to get at something I see as a historical continuity and and the parallels with the billionaire fascination with escape/abdication/secession in the current period.

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Andre Shumpert's avatar

Just to be clear I do not suggest Professor Reich himself is either a billionaire or a bigot. The point was made on the general subject matter addressing the continuity of behavior in the US and abroad in some cases. I didn’t expect to have to explain what I thought was well known and factual. My apologies for any misunderstanding.

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Critical Perspectives's avatar

Ahh now I understand. I live and work in the UK so perhaps what is well understood in the US is not so well understood in the UK. I misinterpreted your post. My bad.

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Andre Shumpert's avatar

I’m so sorry I should been clearer. I do not have a problem with Professor Reich. The U.S. is currently in under horrific management. I should have taken the time to use better language or not comment at all. My sincere apologies.

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Rosemary Boateng's avatar

It is unclear what your assertion means and why you are asserting it . My reading of this piece 'Robert Reich called it Billionaire Secession' is not a refutation of Robert Reich's post but clearly builds on its premise and expands on it by taking what he wrote further. It adds an historical perspective, and refashions Reich's expression of what he considers the 'event' to be. In this way a more immediate complex and contemporaneous analysis is provided. An analysis that not only enables a deeper and broader global perspective but consolidates it with clear evidenced examples.

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