Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few

by Robert B. Reich

The problem is not the size of government but whom the government is for.

The share of corporate income devoted to compensating the five highest-paid executives of large public firms went from an average of 5 percent in 1993 to more than 15 percent in 2013.

It is no great feat for an economy to create a large number of very-low-wage jobs. Slavery, after all, was a full-employment system.