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The War on the Working Class
The reality and the way forward.
Instead of reidentifying the problem, let's identify the solutions. The lordbarons of the world need to start behaving.
290×
CEO / worker
Sources: EPI · OpenSecrets · ProPublica IRS Files · HUD · Redfin · Gallup · The Negotiator (original infographic)
The Boeing 737 MAX: Financialization Kills
Corporate safety failure · Aviation · Structural impunity
346 people died in two preventable crashes. Boeing concealed the design flaw from pilots. No executive was charged. The CEO got a 45% raise. Workers went 16 years without a real contract. Two whistleblowers are dead. This is what financialization looks like when it kills people.
346
killed
Sources: House T&I Committee (2020) · KNKT/AAIB crash reports · DOJ DPA · Boeing DEF 14A · IAM District 751
The Pentagon Revolving Door
Structural capture · Defense industry
645 instances in 2018 alone. 80% of four-star retirees in the defense industry. $159.5M in annual lobbying. A legal framework designed to look like oversight while permitting most of what it purports to restrict. One prosecution, ever.
645
moves / year
Sources: POGO Brass Parachutes (2018) · OpenSecrets · Cornell LII
The Informant's Price: Snowden, Assange, and Palantir
Surveillance state · Press freedom · Corporate capture
Snowden revealed NSA mass surveillance and was exiled. Assange published war crimes and spent seven years in prison. Palantir — which helped build the surveillance Snowden exposed — received $970.5 million in federal contracts in 2025. The people who told the truth got destroyed. The people who built the surveillance got the contracts.
$970M
Palantir / year
Sources: The Intercept · Wikipedia · Al Jazeera · NPR · American Immigration Council · Byline Times
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