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1 month ago | 
currentaffairs.org | Rob Larson
The “free market” workplace subjects people to an ugly, naked hierarchy. It doesn’t have to be that way. As I write, the prominent twisted plutocrat simpleton Elon Musk is dismantling large parts of the government on the grounds that the public sector is filled with inefficient parasitic civil servants who have unimportant make-work jobs.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
jacobin.com | Rob Larson
Google has its tentacles full these days. While pouring a sea of money into developing so-called generative AI, the company is up against two major antitrust cases brought by the federal government and a number of states. The lengthy suit on Google’s search monopoly has led to a guilty verdict, with sentencing expected late next summer.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
inthesetimes.com | Rob Larson
Rob Larson December 19, 2024 The 2024 presidential race was largely a contest among hideous billionaire phonies and their hired proxies. Donald Trump relied to an unusual extent on other billionaires like Elon Musk and Howard Lutnick not just for funding, but for running the campaign and transition plans.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
msn.com | Rob Larson
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
jacobin.com | Rob Larson
Interview by Sara Wexler Thanks in part to movements like Occupy and Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaigns, it’s no secret that the United States, and the world, are grossly unequal in wealth and income. But many people may be unaware of just how bad inequality has gotten, both in the United States and globally, or what it might mean for humanity’s future.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
currentaffairs.org | Rob Larson |Nathan J. Robinson
Originally published in our magazine’s hallowed print edition 2024 July/Aug Details Migrant caravans vs. passports for the rich. Open borders are less threatening when the world’s citizens have at least rough economic equality. The movement of people across borders has endured as a divisive political issue in rich nations. First, there’s the West’s xenophobia and paranoid fear of migrant violence, whether it be of Salvadoran MS-13 gang members or Islamic State sleeper cells.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
lithub.com | Rob Larson
Broadly, an observer of the economy can make out a number of social and economic levels, based not only on how much money people have but how they make their living. This book has so far covered the economics of the richest households, whose members may work, and often earn gigantic CEO incomes from managing large corporate entities.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Rob Larson
For years, Google has been synonymous with its main search product. Generations have grown up relying on the company’s flagship service to search the web, answer questions, and cheat on exams prepared by innocent, hard-working professors. But now all this has been called into question, as this month Google was formally adjudicated to have been running a monopoly in search. What does that mean? Doesn’t Google have competitors, after all?
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
jacobin.com | Rob Larson
For years, Google has been synonymous with its main search product. Generations have grown up relying on the company’s flagship service to search the web, answer questions, and cheat on exams prepared by innocent, hard-working professors. But now all this has been called into question, as this month Google was formally adjudicated to have been running a monopoly in search. What does that mean? Doesn’t Google have competitors, after all?
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
counterpunch.org | Rob Larson
Defenders of ruling elites have seldom been satisfied with the argument that the rich deserve their wealth because of their grudging willingness to provide jobs for everyone else. Very commonly, the tendency is to celebrate the rich and powerful as being different kinds of people from the rest of us—suggesting that they built their gigantic companies up from scratch by their own almost miraculously superior knowledge, relentless drive, and willingness to make tough calls.
