Heather McGhee on Why Racial Progress is Not Zero-Sum
The Good Fight
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The Last Place of Erzia
There is this kind of you know deep human psychology of competition right and that you would rather be poorer yourself as long as the people who you're in competition where for you want to feel superior to. The context of american racism helps to explain not just racial disparities between white and black Americanans but really the turn from a public goods oriented set of public policies, says David Frum. He argues that political actors there are self-interested elites who are setting up a system where being on the bottom of the social hierarchy is so miserable that anybody worth his salt would actually try to climb over his neighbor to get away from it.
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