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Managerialism has become the pretext for creating a new covert form of feudalism, where wealth and position are allocated not on economic but political grounds—or rather, where every day it’s more difficult to tell the difference between what can be considered “economic” and what is “political.”
Bullshit Jobs
David Graeber
Philanthropy was thus intricately bound up with the desire to craft and express identities of wealth that took account of the vast socioeconomic divide between themselves and (almost) everyone else.
Brazilian Elites and Their Philanthropy
Jessica Sklair
The success of a handful of students is not a recipe for changing the structural factors that consign those who stay behind to poverty. Upward mobility by itself won’t solve issues such as residential segregation, lack of access to social support services and medical care, and cultural mismatch,
Moving Up Without Losing Your Way
Jennifer Morton
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