Paul Buchheit
Paul Buchheit is an advocate for social and economic justice, and the author of numerous papers on economic inequality and cognitive science. He was recently named one of 300 Living Peace and Justice Leaders and Models. He is the author of "Disposable Americans: Extreme Capitalism and the Case for a Guaranteed Income" (2017). Contact email: paul (at) youdeservefacts.org.
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Views Monday, September 21, 2020 How Hypocrites in High Places Have Contributed to the Riots in the Streets A perception exists among much of White America that young Black men would rather loot a store than work a job. This perception serves a lot of wealthy people well, deflecting attention away from their own failures to support the needs of society. But it’s a dangerously twisted perception. People... Read more |
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Views Monday, August 31, 2020 How Big Corporations are Draining the Life out of a Sick America When Dr. Jonas Salk was asked about a patent on his polio vaccine in 1955, he said, "There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?" When Gilead Sciences recently developed an anti-Covid drug for about $12 per treatment, they set the price at $3,200. As Republicans and business leaders decry the... Read more |
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Views Monday, August 17, 2020 What to Know When Someone Blames Black People for All the Riots It's easy for lazy thinkers to gloss over the deep-seated reasons for the anger and violence of downtrodden people. Recent lootings of upscale shops on Chicago's Magnificent Mile brought out waves of disgust for the 'thugs' who were said to care little for human values. But an honest review of the... Read more |
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Views Monday, August 03, 2020 Comparing Poverty in India and America May Surprise You The Covid-19 pandemic threatens to impoverish millions of people around the world, in both developing and advanced countries. But many Americans refuse to allow their nation to be compared to a developing country . Their poverty definitions are simplistic, based on globally calculated "dollars per... Read more |
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Views Monday, July 13, 2020 Foreshadowing the Year 2021: Half of America Facing Poverty There is something perverse about an economic system in which the stock market keeps climbing while people are dying. And in which 20 individuals can own as much wealth as the entire bottom half of the population. For the great majority of Americans without a share of the stock market, and for... Read more |
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Views Monday, July 06, 2020 The Protests We Should Be Having to Make the Super-Rich Very Afraid 600 Americans , enough to fill a high school auditorium, own as much as a full 60% of Americans, or 200 million people. About half of the billionaire wealth has accumulated from passive stock market gains over the past ten years. Protests in the streets don't impact the people who have taken so... Read more |
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Views Monday, June 08, 2020 Four Numbers that Show America's Disdain for Its Most Vulnerable People Hundreds of thousands of Americans have suffered "deaths of despair" from alcohol and drug abuse and suicides because they could no longer provide for their families. Even before the COVID-19 crisis, during a post-recession period when the economy and stock market were booming, the poorest 50% of... Read more |
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Views Monday, April 27, 2020 No, We're Not All in This Together. How the Super-Rich Are Cheating America. Media outlets keep telling us that we're all together in this pandemic. But we're not. The super-rich have separated themselves from the rest of us, with concierge medicine, private travel accommodations, isolated but well-stocked resort homes, and a variety of other advantages that allow them to... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, March 03, 2020 Four Numbers That Scream 'Vote for Bernie!' By the numbers, Bernie Sanders is the 'centrist' candidate. The families all the way up to the very center of America have actually lost wealth since the recession. The families from the center to the 90th percentile have seen their share of national wealth drop dramatically. This 90% of America... Read more |
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Views Monday, May 13, 2019 3 Dark and Disturbing Reasons Why Trump Could Win Again It seems absurd to believe that America could make the same mistake again, to elect an ignorant and vulgar narcissist to the most powerful position in the world. But we can't underestimate the ability of the self-serving super-rich to convince millions of Americans that a surging stock market and a... Read more |