How to Unf★ck America | Trailer

This series is all about solutions.

Over the last four decades, the US economy has done quite well for the top 1%, but it has been stagnant for most Americans. This was not an accident, nor the natural workings of the market and certainly not an inevitability. US policies have been deliberately structured since 1980 to redistribute income upwards. In other words, the system has been rigged.

Dean Baker shows us how public policy can be deployed to #UnfckAmerica. Over six episodes, Baker illustrates how even minor changes in public policy can help change our trajectory dramatically. It just takes the political will to recognize that the current situation is not insurmountable, and that change is achievable.

Credits: Dean Baker, Matthew Kulvicki, Nick Alpha, Gonçalo Fonseca, Kurt Semm

[PoliticalEconomy]

Ask Dean this question: Why should the working class accept being cheated out of their fair share of the total surplus? You dont mind the working class being treated as subordinates? Why do you insist on upholding a system of power, privilege, and exclusion even after your reforms? Why not change the game rather than make changes to the game?

[PoliticalEconomy]

Dean is great but he is missing how antitrust, competition, and privatization contributes to inequality. His solutions and others like him still force us to settle for less than we deserve: real economic democracy, economic sovereignty of the people, economic bill of rights, a socialist economic contract, public ownership, and sustainability. Progressives are better than nothing, but still fall way short of what the American people deserve.

[elizabethclaiborne]

This is a trailer, people. Go get the podcast for the deep dives. It’s excellent!

[PoliticalEconomy]

Here is a list of my resources on "upward predistributions"
(Vogel, 2018) Marketcraft: How Governments Make Markets Work
(Teles, 2017) Redistributing Upward (in The Captured Economy)
(Teles, 2015) The Scourge of Upward Redistribution
(Reich, 2015) Why We Must End Upward Pre-Distributions to the Rich
(Stiglitz, 2016) Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy
(Baker, 2011) Upward Redistribution of Income: It Didn’t Just Happen (in The End of Loser Liberalism)
(Baker, 2011) The Great Redistribution (in The End of Loser Liberalism)
(Harvey, 2004) The ‘New’ Imperialism: Accumulation by Dispossession
(Boushey, 2019) Unbound: How Inequality Constricts Our Economy
(Schwalbe, 2014) Rigging the Game: How Inequality is Reproduced
(Wessel, 2021) Only the Rich Can Play: How Washington Works
(Chwalisz, 2015) The Predistribution Agenda: Tackling Inequality
(Adler, 2015) How Economics is biased toward the Rich (in Divided: The Perils of Inequality)
(Americans for Prosperity, 2018) Reverse Robin Hood Cooper
(Bowen, 2015) Reverse “Robin Hood” Effect
(Farnsworth, 2012) Social vs. Corporate Welfare: Competing Needs and Interests
(Angresano, 2016) A Corporate Welfare Economy
(Bennett, 2017) Corporate Welfare: Enriches the Rich
(Lazonick, 2014) Profits Without Prosperity: Stock Buybacks and the Market
(Ingraham, 2017) US Lawmakers are Redistributing Income from the Poor to the Rich
(Sloan, 2021) How the Federal Reserve Is Increasing Wealth Inequality
(Baker, 2016) Rigged: Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy
(Watkins, 2002) Rigged Rules and Double Standards

[endcorruptio]

All of the conniving corporate-freeloader class to the bottom of the ocean is a good start

[samsun]

Spend less time talking, have the 'courage' to actually take the lead and JUST DO IT.

talking = marketing, propaganda, smearing, blaming, wasting so much time and money producing a documentary with animation like this.

JUST DO IT = it's hard, very hard...but you're the Greatest Nation on Earth, right? Now finally start proving it, son.

[Thelongmanable]

*_ABOLISH TAXES = ABOLISH POVERTY = ABOLISH WAR!!!_*

[JohnSmith-vmrx]

Looking forward to this! Is this going to be on YouTube on your channel or Netflicks?

[johnboyle]

I thought he pumping socialism, not so fast comrade!

[appropriatelyspartan]

I was watching one of my videos and instantly Bam this replace my video with this I did not even selected I did not even search it and now I’m being forced fed this garbage

[Slickpete]

*simple don't vote for Sleepy Jo Bidenovski in the next election and America will be un-focked* 😅🤣😂

[johnstrawb]

Unsubscribed. Who needs unnecessary obscenities in their morning feed? The more we tolerate this, the more crass life becomes.