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“In 1963, John Kenneth Galbraith, the liberal economist and adviser to the Kennedys, mocked the modern conservative for being engaged in “one of man’s oldest, best financed, most applauded, and, on the whole, least successful exercises in moral philosophy. That is, the search for a truly superior moral justification for selfishness.”
― Evan Osnos, The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich

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“Alfani notes a pattern that unfolds “repeatedly and systematically across history”: when economic elites become ingrown, impenetrable, and “insensitive to the plight of the masses,” societies tend to become unstable.”
― Evan Osnos, The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich

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“She had to be careful, even now, as she shifted up to fourth gear on the open highway again, to not reinfect herself with that sticky, toxic terror that life—this life, which gave you the beautiful sparkling world—squashed you like a gnat.”
― Michelle Huneven, Bug Hollow

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“Approximately 117 million people earned, on average, the same income that they did in 1980, while the typical income for the top one percent had nearly tripled.”
― Evan Osnos, The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich

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“Of Julia’s wiggly, vertical balloon Sally made a tree with birds in their nests. “El’s right,” Julia said. “You are a good artist. Is that what you want to be when you grow up?” Something inside Sally clanged. Nobody had ever called her an artist, yet by that clang she knew that’s exactly what she was. She nodded and ducked close to her paper, abashed and wildly pleased. Julia said, “Good. You and me. We’ll be the artists in the family—agreed?” Sally has thought of this moment a thousand times since.”
― Michelle Huneven, Bug Hollow

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