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For when elites assume leadership of social change, they are able to reshape what social change is—above all, to present it as something that should never threaten winners.
Winners Take All
Anand Giridharadas
As automation theorists of both right and left envisage, the end of scarcity would enable people to enter voluntary associations with others from all over the globe: to join consortia of mathematical researchers, clubs for inventing new musical instruments, or federations for building spaceships. For most people, this would be the first time in their lives that they could enter truly voluntary agreements—without the gun to their heads of a pervasive material insecurity.
Automation and the Future of Work
Aaron Benanav
As Amrit Rai points out, the tendency to ‘purify’ Urdu by dropping the vocabulary of Sanskrit–Prakrit lineage and incorporating a new Persian diction, had already set in during the eighteenth century (Rai 1984). This resulted in Urdu becoming a ‘class dialect’ of a nervous aristocracy and its identification with Islam, an association that the English administration showed no laziness in underlining. The reaction to this identification took the only available form of associating Hindi and the Nagari script with Hinduism, and of its ‘purification’ by the removal of words of Arabic– Persian lineage.
Political Agenda of Education
Krishna Kumar
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