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Entrenched inequality means that maybe elitism might not be for everybody.

Feb 7 2015
If everyone applied themselves 1000% to making nothing but money, which will never and should never happen, you still couldn’t have billionaires and war criminals without poor people and victims. The whole point of being rich is that there are people who are not.

A tender moment between Code Pink, John McCain and Henry Kissinger causes Jeff Dorchen to reconsider free market predestination.

 

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Jeff Dorchen

Jeff is a visual artist, songwriter/musician, actor, essayist, fiction writer, poet, playwright and screenwriter. He's been a playwright, songwriter, and performer with Chicago's Theater Oobleck since 1988, a writer and actor with Red Baron Films since 2000, and a contributor to This Is Hell! since 1996. He currently lives in Los Angeles. He writes the Substack, Right Twice A Day. 

Right Twice A Day

 

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