Noam Chomsky
10 principles of the concentration of wealth and power
Powerful do not like democracy. Gives voice to people. Prefer us silent. Takes p away form powerful.
Concentrated wealth becomes concentrated power. See in rising cost of election. Forcing parties deeper into hands of corporations. Results in laws that increase concentration of wealth. Vile Maxim. All for ourselves. None for others.
1. Reduce democracy: Madison power in hands of wealthy. Senate had most power. Selected by wealthy. How much democracy should we have. Madison said object to protect the minority of the opponent against the majority. Terrified of land reform. Prevent danger of democracy.
Aristotle and Madison see same prob with demo. Poor take from rich Madison reduce and fragment demo. Give power to wealthy. Aristotle said reduce inequality. More unequal a society, worse the health even of rich. Overlook genocide, slavery, worker exploitation, foreign domination to get to our ideals.
2. Shape agenda. Powell business most marginalized. Trilateral Commission- liberal balance to Powell memo. Dems want to curb democracy and control media. Crisis of democracy. Limit access.
Change schools. Less space to congregate. Make more expensive. Limit what they do. Criticize power against the State. Anti American. Very revealing on. States Trilateral C in 75 says too much democracy. Vitality of surge.
3. Redesign economyMore financial. 40% of Econ. Capital can move. Workers can’t. Free market based on labor Free to move. Greenspan built his view of strong economy but keeping workers insecure. Worried about job, not ask for anything and willing to work like longer. 2008 auto industry nationalized but given back to people who ruined it. We owned it. We could have used it for whatever we wanted. We could have made mass transit. End short term gain. 26 months to 9 months and time to hold stock. 1990-2017. Plutonium dream that we get a big piece, we will carve it up. But not yet. Still suckers. Keep workers fighting each other. Trade agreements. Squeeze them make they happy to have any job.
5. Act solidarity. Attack on social security. Split us. Benefit many of us. We care for each other. Defund. So it doesn’t work. We want something else.
Public School sane thing. We pay for each other. Free Public edu. How we grew and got so strong. (All white Public edu but it did happen). Now more half cost is debt, limits what people can do when out. Attack medical but protect 55 years old, split solidarity. Unregulated healthcare. Lots of admin costs. Only veterans admin can negotiate for drug costs. Medicare better than private health insurance. Joblessness biggest cost. Unused resources. Smith. Pity and compassion. Sorrow from sorrow from others.
6. Run the regulators Take over regulation. Capture. End up protecting the industry. Continental Illinois 1984. First bail out1987. Savings and Loans. .COM Housing boom. Nanny State. We bail them out. Capitalism would killed many corporations. Invest gov policy rather than innovate in market. Run fake grass roots efforts to make policies seem popular.
14th. Corp people will extra rights. Become Mexican Company get national rights of Mexico nor bmw in us. But not immigrants, they get personhood stripped. Cement both parties into narrow issues
8. Labor. Barrier and popular rights. Free association. FDR open to labor. Said force me to do it.
9 make consent. Hume all states power in hands in ruled. Gov need to convince people. Ed Bernaise Propaganda. Gov by intelligent minority. Engineer consent. PR. Make us consumers, not workers. Bernaise got women to smoke. 50s went after Guatemala.
10. Marginalize peopleMartin Gillian’s map policy against Public attitude and Corp design 70% of people have little to no impact on policy.