Changing the narrative on wealth inequality
In our era that harm is the concentration of money and power among a small few, who reap from that concentration a near monopoly on the benefits of change. And do-gooding pursued by elites tends not only to leave this concentration untouched, but actually to shore it up.
Anand Giridharadas • Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
Inequality is about how you make the money that you’re giving back in the first place.”
Anand Giridharadas • Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
The term ‘inequality’ is a way of framing social problems appropriate to an age of technocratic reformers, who assume from the outset that no real vision of social transformation is even on the table.
David Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Message framing
The way information is presented influences the way people perceive and respond to it — even how they think. It involves choosing specific words, phrases, and images to create and shape our interpretation of information to emphasize the benefits or risks.
Three effective frames:
Monumental frames: motivate people through importance, s
The reason these errors were not known was because economists who work with inequality were not familiar with…inequality. Inequality is the disproportion of the role of the tail—rich people were in the tails of the distribution.*8 The more inequality in the system, the more the winner-take-all effect, the more we depart from the methods of thin-tai
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