Have you ever heard a politician refer to company owners as job creators?
First of all, it’s a myth. But politicians use this rhetoric to frame the owning class as the ones who drive the economy. They say that if they give them tax cuts, they’ll have more money, which they’ll spend on hiring more people.
And so the public starts to believe that because the owning class owns the capital, it must be the capital that drives the economy.
In episode 6 of season 4 of the Alberta Worker Podcast, independent labour journalist Kim Siever explains how it’s the working class, not the owning class, that drives every facet of the economy.
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