With Cat Gironda on vacation, Zeteo Associate Gayle Rodda Kurtz is reading — Two essays in the August 2014 issue of Harper’s Magazine that cover developments, which are not prominently reported in the mainstream media, of the changed economic and social landscape. Independent writer Rebecca Solnit’s op-ed Easy Chair column, titled The Octopus and Its Grandchildren, compares those who accumulated great wealth in the nineteenth century with technology’s billionaires of today. Southern Pacific Railroad and Standard Oil were depicted in cartoons […]

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