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Paul Taylor's avatar

Ms. Hakakian, perhaps today your book is *most* inspiring to those who were born and raised in America. The individualist morality that permeates American culture is so well perceived by you, but so lost on New York Times bestselling authors: https://paultaylor.substack.com/p/part-4-antiracist-anti-enlightenment

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Bonnie Beresford's avatar

Economic inequality isn't a bug in the system, it's a feature, one that allows for and encourages starting somewhere and then learning, growing and achieving your way to bigger and better things. There is a dysfunction in a society where college grads think they are immediately worth six-figure incomes simply for getting passing grades.

All beginning workers have much to learn, and they need incentives to continue their education about life. Unequal outcomes exist even between siblings raised in the same environment. There is no "fair" wage, there are simply options that everyone can choose among, in order to get oneself to the economic place desired. It works well and has worked for two centuries for the impressive immigrants who have come to America because it is a country where anyone can "have a go" in the words of Dierdre McKloskey. Read her stuff, it's excellemt.

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