The chasm between such fantasies and reality is acute and growing wider. Megamergers and monopolies are limiting competition. Fewer than 10 corporations control most of the global media. The existing free market depends heavily on taxpayer subsidies and bailouts. Corporate welfare far exceeds that which goes to the poor.
Economic policy is based on the dictum, Takes from the needy, and give to the greedy.
The captains of industry of today make the robber barons of the 19th century look like underachievers. The gap between CEO and worker salaries has never been sharper. He is one of the great figures of resistance of this era. He is in tremendous demand throughout the world as a lecturer and is booked years in advance. A prolific author, his latest book is Class Warfare.