Gabriel Zucman: the Piketty-trained "wealth detective" who catalogued the secret fortunes of the super-rich and figured out how to tax them

[gracchus]

George Carlin on "the American Dream"

@petzl

There’s a weird mindset, perfected by the rich and imposed on the poor, particularly in the US, of convincing the non-rich to cravenly cater to the rich in all ways

Or, to paraphrase Steinbeck:

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.