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• made most of us less competitive. The tasks we used to do can now be done more cheaply by lower-paid workers abroad or by computer-driven machines.
• seed dealers from stocking its competitors’ seeds and has bought up most of the small remaining seed companies.
• of their incomes to the rich. The government—and those with the most influence over it—undertook the upward redistribution less directly, by altering the rules of the game.
• For three decades after World War II, America created the largest middle class the world had ever seen. During those years the earnings of the typical American worker doubled, just as the size of the American economy doubled. Over the last thirty years, by contrast, the size of the economy doubled again but the earnings of the typical American went...
• The threat to capitalism is no longer communism or fascism but a steady undermining of the trust modern societies need for growth and stability.