2022 Lannan Symposium | Can America Survive Capitalism?

Name: 2022 Lannan Symposium | Can America Survive Capitalism?
Uploaded: 2022-03-31T16:09:13+00:00
Duration: 1 h 1 min 4 s
Channel: Lannan Center
Description: Wage inequality in the United States is approaching the extreme level that prevailed prior to the Great Depression, creating new social classes: the precariat (those on short term or zero hours contracts without benefits) and the one percent. With disparity widening––and anger building among some of the dispossessed––can the American Dream endure?

Wage inequality in the United States is approaching the extreme level that prevailed prior to the Great Depression, creating new social classes: the precariat (those on short term or zero hours contracts without benefits) and the one percent. With disparity widening––and anger building among some of the dispossessed––can the American Dream endure?