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Alissa Quart

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The Self-Made Man and the Bootstrap Vision

Sally Kohn: Wealthy and powerful people could use their power to initiate systemic change. She says the self-made man is a myth that should be busted every time it's told by someone like Joshua Hawley or Trump. The bootstrap vision, she says, is one of collective effort; mutual aides are an alternative community activity.Kohn: We don't have unions, we don't have any mechanisms that really allowed people any sort of class mobility. But the mechanism that we do have has been promoted in this country for centuries.

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