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Evan Osnos
“On the ground where I grew up, some of America’s powerful people championed a version of capitalism that liberates wealth from responsibility.”
Evan Osnos, The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich

Evan Osnos
“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

Evan Osnos
“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

Evan Osnos
“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

Beth Macy
“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. —Flannery O’Connor[2]”
Beth Macy, Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America

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