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Posted on July 16, 2017 September 7, 2018

Conspicuous Consumption Is Over — It’s All About Intangibles Now

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The troubling new way America’s top 1% reproduce their privilege ensures the middle class never has a shot to catch up. Read more

Posted on March 13, 2017 October 25, 2018

Donald Trump Is A Rich Man’s Idea Of A Rich Man

Katherine Cross
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class, donald trump, Poverty, society-politics, wealth

The idea that Trump’s gaudy excess is what poor people imagine of wealth is dangerously classist. Read more

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