I worked at a fulfillment center for three years. Mandatory overtime through the holidays, timed bathroom breaks, the whole thing. The year the company posted record profits, our facility got a pizza party and a 40-cent raise. The CEO got a compensation package worth more than every worker in that building will earn in their combined lifetimes. I'm not an economist. I don't know what the right tax rate is. I just know what it feels like to watch the numbers go up on a screen while your knees go bad at thirty-four, and then hear someone on TV explain that the guy at the top "earned" it. He didn't lift the boxes. We did. If the system can't see anything wrong with that picture, the system is what needs defending, not the billionaires.
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