Today I learned that a friend from grad school–a dedicated high school teacher–lost his job yesterday, along with about 80 other teachers, when his town voted against a tax increase.
To echo David Harvey’s conclusion to his RSAnimate talk, “its crap.”
We cannot sit by and accept an economy and government that increasingly stratifies wealth. As I have written before, no one earns a billion dollars (or even a million dollars) in isolation. Please endorse the sharing of wealth as a fundamental human value. Every human being on this planet should deserve a chance at food, healthcare, and education more than particular individuals deserve the right to earn billions of dollars.
