With antiracism, transgender rights, and climate hysteria losing political panache, it is essential that progressive academics find new hobby horses to ride back to relevance.
Say hello to the new MIT Stoned Center on Inequality and Eating the Rich.
The Center was launched with great fanfare at a coming out party that showcased a lineup of academic Experts™ who pine for the powers wielded by EU bureaucrats.
They lost no time laying out their agenda. It’s not Forbes 400 CEOs that are the people’s class enemies. It is Main Street millionaires and owners of mundane private businesses.
“To mitigate wealth inequality, policy proposals include rolling back the 20% deduction for private business owners and increasing taxes on wealth.”
And don’t forget more welfare: “Governments must provide basic public goods.”
And censorship: “People-centric politics requires regulating social media.” Take that, Elon.
Nobel prize winners Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson rolled out their secret weapon for educating the masses. Their Mini-Comic will protect public school graduates who can barely read and write from developing false consciousness.
In this comic, you will learn about the evils of the Industrial Revolution and the wicked factory owners who exploited the poor. Plus dire warnings that AI could create even more inequality than the steam engine if the right Experts™ are not put in charge of policy.
But there is hope!
“A new, more inclusive vision of technology, including pro-worker AI, can only emerge if the basis of social power changes. Confronting the prevailing vision and wresting the direction of technology away from a narrow elite may be even more difficult today than it was in 19th-century Britain and America. But it is no less essential.”