In my view, the American dream of striking it rich is merely a well-marketed fantasy that keeps the bottom 99.5% hoping for better and prevents social and political instability

An Investment Manager’s View – Business Insider

Good article, and breaks down what everyone should already know about wealth generation and control in America.

Joe Hill, an IWW organizer, wrote dozens of songs—biting, funny, class-conscious, inspiring—that appeared in IWW publications and in its Little Red Song Book. He became a legend in his time and after. His song “The Preacher and the Slave” had a favorite IWW target, the church: Long-haired preachers come out every night, Try to tell you what’s wrong and what’s right; But when asked how ‘bout something to eat They will answer with voices so sweet: You will eat, bye and bye, In that glorious land above the sky; Work and pray, live on hay, You’ll get pie in the sky when you die.

Highlighted by Jonathan Bristow in A People’s History of the United States: 1492 to Present by Howard Zinn

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the completed plus size clothing bingo card.

reblogging ye olde plus size bingo card, since i haven’t seen any terrible clothes today.

I almost completed this, and I’m looking at men’s big and tall clothes.

And all the roses in the garden / would bow and ask her pardon / for none could match the beauty of the queen of all Argyle.

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