Michael Mechanic
Autor/a de Jackpot: How the Super-Rich Really Live―and How Their Wealth Harms Us All
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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… de Michael Mechanic
This was jam-packed with name-dropping, statistics, and vivid chapter openings in the form of paragraphs. I did learn, but it wasn't smoothly done. I felt like information was hurled at me. The book ended on such a strange note that I wondered if my ebook had somehow skipped forward. It may well have, but I didn't have it in me to reread pages I might have missed. I'm glad I read this, though.
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iszevthere | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | Jun 20, 2022 | An eye-opening book on wealth and all that surrounds it from accumulation, usage, power, politics, protection, and distribution. These are a few of the topics covered in a kind of expose on what is going on behind the curtain so to speak.
The battle between the haves and have-nots has played out in this country for generations and all indications are it will continue to play out much in the same way down the road. The system that perpetuates this is very much engrained and cultivated in our society and stems much from how capitalism works. The problem becomes when it becomes so skewed as we see playing out today; that the very few control enormous resources and clout in such imbalance that any rationally thinking person would question its fairness. But fair is not really what enters into the matter as the design of the system rules negates such concepts.
This is fundamentally what is examined over and over in the many examples and profiles of how wealth accumulates and its use plays out. The tailoring of the rules of the game primarily in the tax structure is examined closely. It should come as no surprise really that the exercise of raw power in the lobbying arena wins out time and again as legislation is shaped to perpetuate the breaks and loopholes by the politicians who in their own right are part of the wealth system that fuel the engine. Even the everyman types like Senator Sanders are not so everyman in their own financial underpinnings, but at least pay lip service.
Though no real solutions are explored in depth that would certainly be socialistic in nature, there is much to ponder in thinking how can these extremes be rectified to benefit more. We see as each year passes the working wage diminishes to further lower levels of poverty which the top tier continues to mushroom on autopilot. The vaunted middle class holds out hope for the dream of attaining that upper crust only to suspect they too are on the slippery slope elsewhere.
There is much to take from this book and assess where we all fit in along the spectrum from nothing to excess. The only real answers will come when enough say enough. But that seems unlikely as political gridlock continues its hardening process to perpetuate the disparities indefinitely.… (més)
The battle between the haves and have-nots has played out in this country for generations and all indications are it will continue to play out much in the same way down the road. The system that perpetuates this is very much engrained and cultivated in our society and stems much from how capitalism works. The problem becomes when it becomes so skewed as we see playing out today; that the very few control enormous resources and clout in such imbalance that any rationally thinking person would question its fairness. But fair is not really what enters into the matter as the design of the system rules negates such concepts.
This is fundamentally what is examined over and over in the many examples and profiles of how wealth accumulates and its use plays out. The tailoring of the rules of the game primarily in the tax structure is examined closely. It should come as no surprise really that the exercise of raw power in the lobbying arena wins out time and again as legislation is shaped to perpetuate the breaks and loopholes by the politicians who in their own right are part of the wealth system that fuel the engine. Even the everyman types like Senator Sanders are not so everyman in their own financial underpinnings, but at least pay lip service.
Though no real solutions are explored in depth that would certainly be socialistic in nature, there is much to ponder in thinking how can these extremes be rectified to benefit more. We see as each year passes the working wage diminishes to further lower levels of poverty which the top tier continues to mushroom on autopilot. The vaunted middle class holds out hope for the dream of attaining that upper crust only to suspect they too are on the slippery slope elsewhere.
There is much to take from this book and assess where we all fit in along the spectrum from nothing to excess. The only real answers will come when enough say enough. But that seems unlikely as political gridlock continues its hardening process to perpetuate the disparities indefinitely.… (més)
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knightlight777 | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | Jan 15, 2022 | Not rich bashing, actually very sympathetic (do they need sympathy?). Explains the problems of obscene wealth. Strangely at the end it goes a bit off the scripts and complains that there isn't enough obscenely rich women and non-white people.
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Paul_S | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | Jun 29, 2021 | Estadístiques
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