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The mismatch between the demands made on us by the world and the capabilities we have to work with is the great meta-crisis of our time, characterizing the struggles of individuals, organizations, and nation-states.
Education in a Time Between Worlds
Zachary Stein
The emergence of the landless working class added a final piece to the great transformation of England’s economy: they became the world’s first mass consumer population, for they depended on markets for even the most basic goods necessary for survival: clothes, food, housing, and so on. It was these three forces – enclosure, mass displacement of peasants and the creation of a consumer market – that provided the internal conditions for the Industrial Revolution. The external conditions, as we have seen, had to do with the colonisation of the Americas and the slave trade.
In both of these accounts, we see how __philanthropic identities – closely bound up in (familial) identities of wealth centred on the (financial) success of family businesses and hagiographic narratives of the dedication and entrepreneurialism of the founders of those businesses – lend legitimacy to philanthropic practice itself.__ Wealthy philanthropists thus assume legitimacy to shape local and national development practices not on account of any prior expertise in development initiatives, but rather by virtue of their relationship to wealth and its origins.
Brazilian Elites and Their Philanthropy
Jessica Sklair
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