The $30 Trillion Heist
This course documents the crime. It traces the deliberate, systematic transfer of $30 trillion from worker compensation to corporate profits since 1973 — not as an abstraction but as the cumulative gap between productivity (up 290%) and compensation (up 15%).
You will learn the name of the architect: Lewis Powell, who wrote the blueprint for the Chamber of Commerce in August 1971 and then, two months later, was seated on the Supreme Court to execute it. You will follow the chain of decisions — Buckley v. Valeo, Bellotti, Citizens United — that converted corporations from legal conveniences into constitutional persons with rights superior to human beings.
Source material: Chapter 10 (“The Blueprint”), Chapter 11 (“The Slow Bleed”), Chapter 12 (“How Corporate Capture Broke the American Family”), Chapter 14 (“The Great Worker Betrayal”)
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The Number That Changes Everything
The Architect and the Blueprint
The Chamber and the Ongoing Defense
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