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The Billionaire Genius Myth: Who Really Creates the Technology We Use?

October 2, 2026 By Egberto Willies Leave a Comment

The Billionaire Genius Myth: Who Really Creates the Technology We Use?

Tech billionaires collect the glory while workers create the value. Explore the programmers, public research, and mining labor behind the billionaire-genius myth.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Big Tech, Bill Gates, capitalism, child labor, cobalt mining, Computer History, corporate power, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Economic Inequality, Economic Justice, Elon Musk, innovation, Labor Exploitation, MS-DOS, Open Source, Politics Done Right, public investment, Public Research, Tech Billionaires, Tim Paterson, workers rights, World Wide Web

Billionaires Must Pay Back: Workers Built the Wealth They Claim

October 2, 2026 By Egberto Willies Leave a Comment

Billionaires Must Pay Back: Workers Built the Wealth They Claim

Workers and taxpayers helped build billionaire fortunes. A progressive wealth tax can reclaim that public investment and fund healthcare, housing, and opportunity.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: billionaires, Brendan Boyle, capital gains, corporate power, Economic Justice, Elizabeth Warren, Financial Transaction Tax, middle class, Politics Done Right, Pramila Jayapal, Progressive Politics, Property Taxes, public investment, Tax Fairness, tax the rich, Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act, Unearned Income, Unrealized Gains, wealth inequality, Wealth Tax, working class

The Capitalist Veto: Why America Cannot Build What Its People Need

August 2, 2026 By Egberto Willies

The Capitalist Veto: Why America Cannot Build What Its People Need

Solar waits, patients suffer, and workers sit idle while corporations demand maximum extraction. This exposes the grand economic con behind “free markets.”

Filed Under: General Tagged With: America’s Grand Economic Con, capitalism, Climate Crisis, corporate greed, Democratic Economy, drug prices, Economic fraud, Economic Inequality, Electrical Grid, Fossil Fuel Subsidies, fossil fuels, green energy, Healthcare Profiteering, infrastructure, Insurance Denials, Job Creation, Medicare Advantage, Medicare For All, NIH research, Oil Industry, Pharmaceutical Industry, Politics Done Right, Prescription Drugs, Private Health Insurance, Privatized Profit, Profit Blocks Progress, progressive economics, public investment, renewable energy, rooftop solar, Socialized Risk, solar energy, Traditional Medicare, Unemployment

Billions for War, Austerity for Americans: Hegseth Reveals the Scam

July 22, 2026 By Egberto Willies

Billions for War, Austerity for Americans: Hegseth Reveals the Scam

The Pentagon always gets its billions. Families get deductibles, hunger and austerity. Hegseth’s war request exposes Washington’s corporate, people-last priorities.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: American Farmers, Antiwar Movement, China Belt and Road Initiative, Corporate Welfare, DEFENSE BUDGET, defense contractors, DOGE, Economic Justice, Foreign Aid, healthcare crisis, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, Iran war, Medicare For All, military industrial complex, military spending, Pentagon Budget, Pete Hegseth, Politics Done Right, poverty, Progressive Politics, public investment, social programs, Trump administration, U.S. Foreign Policy, Universal Healthcare, USAID, USAID Cuts, War-Profiteering

America Built Flight And Apollo, But Capitalism Now Sells Crypto, Gambling, And Hype

July 3, 2026 By Egberto Willies

America Built Flight And Apollo, But Capitalism Now Sells Crypto, Gambling, And Hype

Capitalism does not free creativity; it extracts it. A caller connects worker precarity, privatized healthcare, crypto scams, and billionaire space myths.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: American Dream, Apollo Program, billionaire class, capitalism, corporate greed, Crypto Scams, Democratic Socialism, Economic Justice, Elon Musk, Healthcare Is A Right, innovation, NASA, Oligarchy, Politics Done Right, Privatized Healthcare, Progressive Politics, public good, public investment, Real Innovation, socialism, Sports Betting, worker rights, working class

Billionaires Didn’t Build Space: NASA, Public Money, and Workers Made It Possible

June 13, 2026 By Egberto Willies

Billionaires Didn’t Build Space: NASA, Public Money, and Workers Made It Possible

This segment dismantles the SpaceX mythology and explains why space exploration must serve the commons, not billionaire extraction.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Apollo Program, billionaire myth, billionaire propaganda, CNN, commercial crew, commercial resupply, Corporate Media, Egberto Willies, Elon Musk, Fareed Zakaria, Independent media, Janna Levin, Mariana Mazzucato, NASA, NASA spinoffs, NASA technology transfer, Oligarchy, plutocracy, Politics Done Right, Powell Memo, Progressive Politics, public goods, public investment, public science, space commons, space privatization, SpaceX, taxpayer funded innovation, taxpayer investment

The Capitalism Myth Exposed: Workers Build America, Billionaires Take the Credit

April 29, 2026 By Egberto Willies

The Capitalism Myth Exposed - Workers Build America, Billionaires Take the Credit

Workers built America, but billionaires took the credit. A sharp breakdown of capitalism’s biggest myths.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: billionaires, capitalism, corporate greed, democracy, Economic Justice, economic reform, healthcare reform, Labor movement, middle class, Progressive Politics, public investment, unions, wage stagnation, wealth inequality, worker power, workers rights

Corporate Socialism Exposed 60 Minutes Reveals Who Really Takes the Risk

April 4, 2026 By Egberto Willies

Corporate Socialism Exposed 60 Minutes Reveals Who Really Takes the Risk

60 Minutes reveals how corporations rely on subsidies while avoiding risk—rare earths, shipbuilding, and more expose capitalism’s structural failure.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: capitalism, China economy, corporate greed, Corporate Socialism, Corporate Welfare, Economic Inequality, Government Subsidies, industrial policy, infrastructure, Medicare Advantage, neoliberalism, progressive economics, public investment, rare earth minerals, shipbuilding

Caller: “Trump’s Cuts Would Have Killed Me”—A Rural Hospital Survival Story

November 19, 2025 By Egberto Willies

Caller: “Trump’s Cuts Would Have Killed Me”—A Rural Hospital Survival Story

A rural caller describes how publicly funded emergency care saved her life—and how Trump’s cuts would have left her to die. A powerful warning for America’s healthcare future.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Big beautiful bill, emergency medical care, emergency rooms, healthcare inequality, healthcare justice, healthcare policy, healthcare survival story, Human Rights, immigration and healthcare, medical helicopter, Medicare For All, Peggy Lopez, political cruelty, Politics Done Right, Progressive Politics, public health funding, public investment, rural america, rural healthcare, rural hospitals, trauma care, Trump healthcare cuts, Trump policies, Universal Healthcare

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