One Nation, Under Corporate Control

March, 2007

HY DOESA PLAYBOY FORUM ROUNDTABLEAny discussion of economic inequal­ity, we are (old, is a matter of class warfare. But facts are facts. Over the past decade, middle-class wages (adjusted for inflation) have hardly budged, even as the rich get richer and the price of housing and health care goes through the roof. The disparity in our economic system has started to undermine the foundations of the middle class—life expectancy is now lower in the U.S. than in much of Western Europe. The profound e...