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There are no guarantees that things will turn out very well for anyone. A sunny disposition is not an action plan or a to-do list. “Just have faith” is a strategy that forecloses our capacity to challenge power.
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Her breakthrough comes as breakthroughs often do: by long and prepared accident.
The Overstory
Richard Powers
IBM founder Thomas Watson provided funding through his foundation and magazine. His ‘positive thinking’ philosophy effectively individualised success and failure, suggesting that poverty resulted from negative thinking rather than systemic economic conditions, a message that proved incredibly useful to businesses opposing New Deal reforms and labour unions.
The Cult of Capitalism
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