By Paul Buchheit Guest writer for Wake Up World By its best definition, the poverty rate should be tripled. Poverty should not be defined simply by the number of dollars that an American...
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How Aristocracies Are Born
December 6th, 2018 By Josh Hoxie Guest writer for Wake Up World Our country is on track to be ruled by the children of billionaires. Our ancestors recognized this and took action. We can too. This...
5 Facts That Privileged Americans Don’t Want Us to Know
By Paul Buchheit Guest writer for Wake Up World It’s strange that most media outlets rarely if ever report on these realities… until you remember who owns most media outlets...
The Evidence Pours In: Poverty Getting Much Worse in America
By Paul Buchheit Guest writer for Wake Up World A White House report recently proclaimed that the “War on Poverty is largely over and a success.” United Nations...
The Capitalist Manifesto and the True Meaning of Socialism
By Paul Buchheit Guest writer for Wake Up World The Capitalist Manifesto: ‘Let Poor People Die’ The root of the capitalist problem is the condemnation of anything...
Imagine Our Economy as a Game of ‘Monopoly’
September 19th, 2018 By Jill Richardson Guest writer for Wake Up World If you set up the board game like our actual economy, the poorest players quickly run out of money and the rich run away...
$30 Trillion New Wealth Went to the Richest White Americans Since 2008 Recession
September 14th, 2018 By Paul Buchheit Guest writer for Wake Up World While wealth continues to rush, not trickle, upwards, low-income families are going backwards as the average net worth for...
America – The Great Illusion
By Tim Bryant and Ryan Cristián Guest writers for Wake Up World “Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” — Albert...
Capitalism and the “Jobs for Everyone” Fallacy
July 11th, 2018 By Paul Buchheit Guest writer for Wake Up World The “Jobs for Everyone” Fantasy “The more robots we add to our fulfillment centers, the more jobs we are...
Evidence That Half of Americans Are In or Near Poverty
July 7th, 2018 By Paul Buchheit Guest writer for Wake Up World The extreme level of wealth inequality in the U.S. is battering the poor. Deniers like Nikki Haley refuse...
Can Blockchain Technology Change the World?
June 15th, 2018 By Nanice Ellis Contributing writer for Wake Up World No doubt, a lot of people are getting rich from Bitcoin, and other crypto-currencies, but there’s more here than...
Big Pharma, Big Oil and Big Banks – The Definition of Terrorism
May 3rd, 2018 By Paul Buchheit Guest writer for Wake Up World Meeting the Definition of Terrorism: Big Pharma, Big Oil, and Big Banks Various definitions of terrorism have been proposed in...