Today the changes that are generating enormous inequality, progressively destroying real jobs with security and benefits, demanding longer and longer hours and at least two incomes per household as prerequisites for a minimally middle-class existence, and depriving people of control over their work even in the professional classes are taking place in the absence of any credible opposition to the free-market dogma that rules the day. On the contrary, the capitalist triumphalists are riding high on a wave of prosperity that has enriched a minority of the population while obscuring the long-term slippage of our standard of living and our quality of life.
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Ellen Willis was a 20th-century American writer. Ellen Jane Willis was an American left-wing political essayist, journalist, activist, feminist, and pop music critic. A 2014 collection of her essays, The Essential Ellen Willis, received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. Read more on Wikipedia →