💸 This Theory Keeps The Rich Wealthy and You Poor, The 'Mudsill Theory': Thom Hartmann

Posted 1 year ago, (12 mins).

YouTube Description: This theory keeps the rich wealthy and you.. poor. Advocate limited or no public education, low pay, exploitation of child workers, anti- worker, cast- like system.

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- The GOP is displaying a deploying a dangerous theory that will further divide the rich from the poor. I recognized this in '81. Here in Ohio, Gov. Kent State Rhodes had been cutting education all through the 1970s. Then Reagan slashed it big time. There can be no possible benevolent reason for doing that. Then everything he did made perfect sense in terms of class warfare. And I've been anti- Republican ever since.

- Gaslighting people into believing unions are bad, raising wages kills jobs and Trickle Down/Free Market Economics actually work, also works too.
- Do they not understand how much more useless sh*t they could sell if there was wealthy?
- They're also referred to as 'right to starve.'
- The poor are kept poor by laws and policies.

- I am for unions, my grandfather was fired 6 months before retirement. My father was replaced by a computer 2 years before retirement and I got to retire because I was in a union.
- Here in Texas, a 16 year old kid was killed by a tornado while he was working at construction.

- "Unions are democracy in the workplace." - Thom Hartmann...

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- Wiki. MUDSILL THEORY is the proposition that there must be, and always has been, a lower class or underclass for the upper classes and the rest of society to rest upon. The term derives from a mudsill, the lowest threshold that supports the foundation for a building.

History: The theory was first articulated by James H. Hammond, a Democratic United States senator from South Carolina and a wealthy Southern plantation owner, in a speech on March 4, 1858.

Hammond argued that every society must find a class of people to do menial labor, whether called slaves or not, and that assigning that status on a racial basis followed natural law, while the Northern United States' social class of white wage laborers presented a revolutionary threat.

Criticism: Many saw the argument as a weak justification for exploitation and a flimsy example of manipulating science to reference as proof...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudsill_theory