One simply can’t arrive at a more economically equal reality when the rungs of the ladder are so far apart. The money and time the MarketWorlders spend fixing the edges of our fraying social order could be used to push for real change. Another recent book, the historian Nancy MacLean’s “Democracy in Chains,” provides a salutary lesson on the dangerous ways a self-serving ideology can spread. Very rich people will always use money to maintain their political and economic power. The subtitle of the book says it all: “The Elite Charade of Changing the World.”

Source: New York Times August 20, 2018 09:00 UTC