Alexander Antukh

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It is no accident that the rhetoric of rising was at its most fulsome at a time when inequality was approaching daunting proportions. When the richest 1 percent take in more than the combined earnings of the entire bottom half of the population,30 when the median income stagnates for forty years,31 the idea that effort and hard work will carry you far begins to ring hollow.
The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
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