Dean Baker: Plutocrats vs. Populists: Good Piece Until the End -- Answers are Easy

Sunday, 03 November 2013 08:17

Chrystia Freeland has a good piece in the NYT on the rise of plutocratic politics in the United States and elsewhere and the populist opposition it has provoked. The piece makes many interesting points but then towards the end strangely tells readers:

"Part of the problem is that no one has yet come up with a fully convincing answer to the question of how you harness the power of the technology revolution and globalization without hollowing out middle-class jobs."

No, this is very far from true. There are very convincing answers to this question, it's just the plutocrats block them from being put into practice.