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On 29 Jan 2002, at 19:01, Jei wrote:
> -------------------- Enron May Spark Revolt of
> Professionals --------------------
>
> By James K. Galbraith
>
> James K. Galbraith, a professor at the University of Texas
> at Austin, is the author, most recently, of "Inequality and
> Industrial Change: A Global View."
>
> January 25, 2002
>
> NOWADAYS there are three classes in America: working people
> at the bottom, professionals above them, a tiny elite at
> the top. Democrats represent the professionals, Republicans
> represent the CEOs. No one, much, speaks for working
> people, who must rely on the sympathy of leading Democrats
> for most of the little they get.
Galbraith is rather famous for judging communist china (back
in the days when it really was communist) by the conditions
he encountered in a luxury hotel for foreign friends of the
regime.
It is striking that the more that intellectuals froth with
outrage at moderate and civilized inequality in the US, the
less they are apt to notice the brutal and savage inequality
of totalitarian terror states.
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James A. Donald
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