How America's celebrity obsession weakens the fight against inequality.
Deepening inequality is escalating a tribal conflict between the haves and the have-nots in America. But it's not playing out in the most obvious way: the beef of working-class, blue-collar Americans isn't with Manhattan-born billionaires and Instagram influencers-it's with garden var...
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| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English. |
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Big Think,
2018.
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| Series: | Academic Video Online
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| Summary: | Deepening inequality is escalating a tribal conflict between the haves and the have-nots in America. But it's not playing out in the most obvious way: the beef of working-class, blue-collar Americans isn't with Manhattan-born billionaires and Instagram influencers-it's with garden variety professional elites. "If you look at the surveys, Pew Foundation studies, you find that most Americans, including working-class Americans, actually love capitalism," says Yale professor Amy Chua. "They don't want socialism. They still want a system where if you can work hard you can strike it rich, and they want it to be fine to be rich." It's that dream that sustains inequality from the bottom up. Amy Chua is the author of Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (8 minutes) |
| Playing Time: | 00:07:22 |