Robert Reich: Capitalism’s New Slogan ‘You Own It, You Can Break It’ – OpEd

When I was a kid, I went into a shop with my mother and accidentally broke a fine ceramic bowl by not watching where I was going. 

“You break it, you own it,” she told me sternly. She paid the shopkeeper for the bowl and then deducted the cost from my small weekly allowance in installments that seemed to stretch...