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Tom Steyer attacked Pete Buttigieg for a lack of government experience. Steyer says he's better suited to take on President Trump because "I actually know something about economics... (and) Mr. Trump is running on the economy" pic.twitter.com/HgoreWF364— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) February 8, 2020
Tom Steyer attacked Pete Buttigieg for a lack of government experience. Steyer says he's better suited to take on President Trump because "I actually know something about economics... (and) Mr. Trump is running on the economy" pic.twitter.com/HgoreWF364
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Tom Steyer's Long Journey Tom Steyer wants you to know that he's a businessman. He also wants you to know that he's not that kind of businessman. Dig a little deeper, as I did with Steyer by phone while he traveled through western New Hampshire on Wednesday, and you find that his viewpoint on the economy would not be out of place at a Bernie Sanders rally. He believes the corporate mentality of short-term thinking to boost shareholder profits has crippled America and its workforce. He believes the wealthy have extracted society's gains and left nothing for everyone else. "If you understand how corporate people think," Steyer told me, "they look at their employees as people driving revenues or not. And if you're not driving revenues, you are commoditized as a human being. You're not an employee, not a partner, not a co-worker, but a digitized asset. Workers went from being partners to being widgets." ... Here's what that same guy is saying today. "Something dramatic changed in the 1980s in terms of how people running corporations and boards thought about their responsibility. We moved from a stakeholder model to a shareholder model, and that's absolutely wrong. It's corrosive and destructive to America." In our interview, Steyer also condemned the Laffer Curve, which predicted that lower taxes would increase federal revenues, and the concept of trickle-down economics. He accused the Trump administration of "committing crimes against humanity" on the border. He was proudly liberal and even fiery at times.
Tom Steyer wants you to know that he's a businessman. He also wants you to know that he's not that kind of businessman.
Dig a little deeper, as I did with Steyer by phone while he traveled through western New Hampshire on Wednesday, and you find that his viewpoint on the economy would not be out of place at a Bernie Sanders rally. He believes the corporate mentality of short-term thinking to boost shareholder profits has crippled America and its workforce. He believes the wealthy have extracted society's gains and left nothing for everyone else.
"If you understand how corporate people think," Steyer told me, "they look at their employees as people driving revenues or not. And if you're not driving revenues, you are commoditized as a human being. You're not an employee, not a partner, not a co-worker, but a digitized asset. Workers went from being partners to being widgets."
... Here's what that same guy is saying today. "Something dramatic changed in the 1980s in terms of how people running corporations and boards thought about their responsibility. We moved from a stakeholder model to a shareholder model, and that's absolutely wrong. It's corrosive and destructive to America." In our interview, Steyer also condemned the Laffer Curve, which predicted that lower taxes would increase federal revenues, and the concept of trickle-down economics. He accused the Trump administration of "committing crimes against humanity" on the border. He was proudly liberal and even fiery at times.
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