Power (rent-seeking) corrupts, and absolute power (the 0.1%) corrupts absolutely.

Henry George had much in common with Rutger Bregman (about a UBI and from whence it can come) who was on last night’s episode of Q and A “Sex, Lies and Better Politics“.

Marx was wrong. The fight is not between labour and capital, because wages and earned profits rise and fall together – inversely to private rent-seeking by banking, land prices and other monopolies.