economy

What Happened to American Labor?

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Here, on this Labor Day weekend, unofficially concluding the strangest summer in history, we reprint an article acknowledging the American worker. In real terms, he has barely budged a jot in 40 years. But why? Today we grope for answers, and ponder his future. Will automation put him permanently to pasture?

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We’re All Serfs of Big Tech

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Big Tech corporations exert more power than ever, and are only getting stronger. Today Charles Hugh Smith shows you why we’re all “serfs on Big Tech’s platform plantations.”

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Why Martians Are Wrong About Gold

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Martians — and Warren Buffet — are wrong about gold… Gold is the money of freedom… Why do men still toil extravagantly to wrest gold metal from stingy earth?

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