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== What Is Wrong With Plutocratic Policy Making ==
== What Has Changed ===
=== Reduction In Earnings For The Lower And Middle Classes ===
=== Transfer Of Risk To The Middle Class===
=== Shackling Students With Enormous Loans ===
=== Huge Increase In Medical And Drug Costs ===
=== Requiring Two Earners To Produce The Median Family Income ===
=== Industry Concentration Into Oligopoly And Monopoly ===
=== Re-Creation Of Robber Baron Inequality ===
=== Destruction Of Non-Commercial Voices ===
=== Reduction In Access To The Legal System ===
The '60s saw some incredible progressive legislation that gave legal aid to the poor: not just for defense in criminal cases, but also for lawsuits in the interests of the poor against governments and the wealthy.  This has been rolled back.

[[Arbitration]] has been promoted as a more economical alternative to lawsuits.  But in practice, corporations force workers and customers into arbitration, often with clauses prohibiting appeal to the justice system.  Usually with arbitrators selected by and paid for by the corporations.  When corporations disagree with each other, they do not head for arbitration: they head for the courts.  But that's too good for their workers and customers.
=== Corporate Privilege ===
* Different bankuptcy law
* Different tax law
* Power advantage of large, wealthy corporations
* Which bankers went to jail over the Great Recession? 
* Which bankers went to jail over the enormous frauds in securitization of the mortgage industry and subsequent foreclosures?
* Who has gone to jail over violations of election contributions laws?
* Unreasonable extension of copyright to benefit Disney and other corporate copyright owning giants, removing the promise of public domain for decades.
== What Has Continued ==
=== War Making For Capitalist Benefit ===
== What Has Been Resisted So Far ==
== What Has Been Overturned ==
=== Some Medical Industry Market Failures ===
* Obamacare
== What They Are Trying To Change Now ==
=== Education ===
== Solutions ==
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