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2B — Or Not To Be: The $50 Trillion Decision

Hamlet asked it first. To be, or not to be. He meant it as a personal question. We named our organization 2B because we believe that question now belongs to civilization itself. In 1970, Milton Friedman published 1,500 words. One year later, Lewis Powell wrote eight pages. The boards, the banks, the think tanks, the lobbyists, the business schools — all executed faithfully. The result: $50 trillion transferred from working people to concentrated wealth over 45 years. Wages for the bottom 90% ba

David Gould

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