A plan to curb the "addiction to growth": "Curbing advertising, taxing carbon, a basic income, and a shorter work week".

I think we must also do something to curb the ability of billionaires to compete to outdo the others.

A report argues that the main drivers of inequality are certain government policies: taxation, trade, regulation, public subsidies, and expenditures.

It is clear that retraining people to take different jobs can help only a small fraction of the unemployed and the 50% of employed Americans stuck in Mcjobs.

However, technology is also an important factor. If automation eliminates 10% of jobs over a decade, there is no way that most of those people will find anything but Mcjobs, if even that.

Globalization is a crucial factor, but perhaps at a deeper level. Globalization is the driver of trade policy. Globalization-oriented trade policy gives businesses the power to knock down regulations that protects us from them, demand public subsidies, and force cuts in expenditure by dodging taxes.

The business-supremacy treaties are at the root of this.