Kerry Landon-Lane
2 min readNov 23, 2019

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A Fight with Cudgels or should we discuss?

You serve up a smorgasbord of woes. Half probably valid and the other not, but it takes some deciphering which half is which.

Your concerns are real but you make no effort to understand just what is going on with a bunch of varied issues — and offer few solutions. That may not be your purpose however.

The majority of Americans have been doing well in the last decades. Our expansion of trade and advances in technology have resulted in appreciable lifts in standards of living. That said, there have been people left out — or worse, disenfranchised. We are in a global economy (and it would be disastrous for our living standard to undo that) and earnings of both individuals and companies have changed because of that. There is now a dramatically greater income spread (this being the main woe in your article).

Local soprano Beverley Sills would be making relatively less money today (should she still be singing) because of competition from the international sapranos like Elisabete Matos, Maria Agresta, Elena Mosuc, Violeta Urmana etc.

What to do about the disenfranchised?

Well you could vote for Andrew Yang with his $1000 a month for every adult (or suggest the idea to another candidate of your choosing). The concept has merit. It would provide a base for people to live through varied times, allow opportunities for more education or to start a business. Certainly a solution has to be found to this big problem or we shall provide a place for yet another Donald Trump — or the equivalent from the left.

The other big issue to be addressed is not so much the size of companies but their dominance of markets which destroys much needed competition and innovation.

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Kerry Landon-Lane
Kerry Landon-Lane

Written by Kerry Landon-Lane

OP-ED writer, designer and artist. Most recently returned to architecture and deliberately presents the subject void of buildings.

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