Highlights first synced by [[readwise]] [[September 2nd, 2020]]
- opinions of Congress are extremely low—in the teens. Nevertheless, probably 98% of incumbents get reelected. (Location 237)
- It’s an economy in which one of the leading principles is that the public pays the costs and takes the risks whereas the profit is privatized. (Location 269)
- This was devised as a means to throw much of the black male population into prison, where they would stay permanently through various other machinations and from which they created the basis of a good part of the modern industrial society: mines, steel mills, cotton, and so on. (Location 283)
- That’s reinstituting slavery; prison slavery, in fact, since these inmates work as prison labor. (Location 291)
- Do we want a world, to take a case in point, where 85 percent of the population believe that their government should adopt the policies of every other government and negotiate drug prices to cut them down from their exorbitant level and their government doesn’t even put it on the agenda? (Location 301)