you had most famously upton sinclair wrote the jungle. he had an ideology. he was a valid socialist. there was a willingness to go there and speak aggressively toward the powers that be. you don't really see that anymore. people just sort of sit up there and opine and talk about what they think. none of these journalists on cable right big aggressive stories. most of the stories are broken into people like me. washington for example the washington post wrote a pulitzer -- won a pulitzer prize for investigating me not corruption in the government. you need to have the spirit of investigative reporting and citizens need to do it. have a renaissance to go back to what was done decades ago. now it doesn't happen anymore. it goes back to what i talk about in the book which is economics. the commercial imperative which a lot of news organizations have slashed their budgets. abc news recently slashed their investigative bureau. it has become a commercial enterprise not a journalism one. that's why we are philanthropic nonprofit organization. nobody tells us what to

if you go back to the beginning of the 20th century , after upton sinclair's the jungle there was a movement to make safer food. it was about slaughterhouse but that's not what hero the book about but it was a movement in food that has lasted since then. hegovernment doesn't make the food, it's our job to keep everybody healthy. the national parks, we realized that nature rand the ability to access nature, we created the national parks. you can kind of walk through the 20th century. social security, what's that about? it's about security for people sort of our age. and in 65 it was a medicare. these are all sort of decisions that we made together democratically that people should have healthcare when they reach65. people should have a certain level of economic security . the clean air act h, the whole set of things that have happened over the 20th century was really 100 years of good law that was increasingly good. here's an example i like to give. cars, cars used to impale us on impact. you can think, the paint on that wall used to have led in it and it had led out of it because of public a

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when the commodity turns down, they are often one-way tickets to a really bad upton sinclair novel. i expect -- to slow down tomorrow. then, there is tech. this morning -- put out a piece saying semiconductors made another decline of their already miserable existence. okay, market, that could have been ignored. in this market, it became an actual road map. does not help that the taiwanese are shooting chinese drones. china retaliating could mess up the entire tech supply chain. outside of hardware, software stocks -- service, got punch -- even the ones that are popular are getting hit now. unlike the other securities i have mentioned, i think many of these will eventually bounce back. oil used to pay good dividends, those will also put back. you just need to leg into both. -- pure panic getting. mentioned retail? you want some coal sold back to you? back when it was reported that so-called blowout quarter? at least best buy is holding up. i am letting the meme and traitors gamble with bed bath and beyond, because that is just a mud pit. if it were me, i will put my money on 00, i th

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this is something described so clearly by upton sinclair in the jungle. francis perkins saw older people get kicked to the curb, particularly when there was an economic downturn. and employers would hire young people at lower wages. she saw that people who scraped by could be destroyed by even a brief period of unemployment if they lost their jobs and had no savings. she began to see that much was needed to improve peoples lives. she went to graduate school in new york city, and there she had another shocking and life-changing experience. she witnessed the triangle shirt waste fire, one of the most famous industrial accidents of the early 20th century. now, the triangle company made gibson girl blouses. and those of you who remember, those were the freely, very beautiful blouses that we see in pictures from that era. they employed hundreds of immigrants in their factory that was located on the eighth, ninth, and tenth floors of a manhattan office building in greenwich village. women were lined up shoulder to shoulder at sewing machines, with the leftover