Long Nguyen’s Reviews > The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream > Status Update

Many of the seminal events of the civil rights movement could not happen today, most of all because society is more bureaucratized, more safety obsessed, and also less tolerant of any kind of disturbance or disruption at all.

Today's innovators often produce unique, stand-alone silos.

We're too often content with "one is enough" and not obsessed enough with the long-run dynamic possibilities from more immdediately destructive forms of competitive emulation.

As companies are holding more funds in safe securities rather than investing them in new business opportunities.
Companies would rather buy up other, already established companies than try to succeed with new ideas or their own new product lines.

The data show that the rich and well educated are keener to live togehter, in tight bunches and groups, than are the less well educated. Democrats cluster themselves more tightly than do Republicans, in part reflecting their stronger preference for urban areas, and that urbanisation itself may tilt people toward the Democratic Party.

The data show that the rich and well educated are keener to live togehter, in tight bunches and groups, than are the less well educated. Democrats cluster themselves more tightly than do Republicans, in part reflecting their stronger preference for urban areas, and that urbanisation itself may tilt people toward the Democratic Party.

"Those Who Get Stuck" class has been committing much less crime, engaging in much less social unrest, and embracing extreme ideologies such as communism to a smaller degree; if anything, they have been more disillisioned than politically engaged.

The American society is divided into three classes:
1. The Privileged Class
2. Those Who Dig In
3. Those Who Get Stuck