Sunday, January 21st, 2007
A follow-up to last weeks post on Celebrity support of charities and the lemming approach to winning badges. It seems that not only celebs are worrying about the state of the world. Slate magazine has an article this week aubtitled “Why are America’s superrich suddenly fretting about income inequality?” Imagine billionaires saying “And despite the laughable efforts of right-wing think tank denizens to sow doubt, there’s a pretty broad consensus that the usual mechanisms that produce gains for workers just haven’t kicked into gear in this cycle. Five years of growth and a tight labor market haven’t done much to increase wages or benefits—the proportion of workers receiving health insurance through work has actually declined through this expansion.“

Are we seeing crticism of the neoconsevative economic theory and tax cut/deficit budgeting from the beneficiaries or is it just hot air?