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Michael Mechanic is a senior editor at Mother Jones magazine. He lives in Oakland, California, with his wife, two teenagers, and various animals. Jackpot is his first book.

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Jackpot: How the Super-Rich Really Live―and How Their Wealth Harms Us All

3.86 avg rating — 813 ratings — published 2021 — 6 editions

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“At the Concours d’Elegance, the annual auto show and zillionaire fest at Pebble Beach, I introduce myself to a woman in her early fifties whom I’ll call Sally.”
― Michael Mechanic, Jackpot: How the Super-Rich Really Live—and How Their Wealth Harms Us All

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“Sociologist Rachel Sherman, who wrote a book called Uneasy Street about the anxieties of wealthy Manhattanites, had one woman nearly cancel their interview because Sherman used the word “affluent” in an outreach email.”
― Michael Mechanic, Jackpot: How the Super-Rich Really Live—and How Their Wealth Harms Us All

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“Researchers have found we all have a tendency to emphasize obstacles and downplay our own luck and privilege. “I run on the beach,” Paul Piff told me by way of illustration. “Some days I feel like I’m going particularly fast, and on those very same days, when I’m coming back, I feel like, ‘Whoa, that is a heavy wind, and it’s making me go slower. I didn’t realize when I was going fast that there was wind pushing me.’ ”
― Michael Mechanic, Jackpot: How the Super-Rich Really Live—and How Their Wealth Harms Us All

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