Jacobin Article
https://jacobinmag.com/2019/10/bernie-wants-you-to-own-more-of-the-means-of-production This article discusses the Bernie Sanders campaign, and how it is designed to shift power back to the working class. The most radical of his policies, the one this article discusses, is to shift corporate equity to the workers. His policy would be that corporations have to shift two percent of ownership to the workers every year, for ten years (20%). The article states the market value of publically traded funds stands at 35.6 trillion dollars, and twenty percent of that amasses to 7.1 trillion dollars. This money spread across the entire working class, who I will consider to be the entire US population to make the math easier, amounts to 21,700 dollars person. Currently, 86.4% of equity is owned by the top 10% of the population, and the top 1% percent owning 57.5% of it. This leads to power and wealth being condensed in the hand of a few. Those who own the means of production decide what is produc...