Is it Euro-poor, or Ameri-poor?
The industrialized world has tried to approximate paradise in its suburbs, with luxe, calme, volupté, cul-de-sacs, cable television and two-car garages, and it has produced a soft ennui that shades over into despair and a decay of the soul suggesting that Paradise is already a gulag. Countless desperate teenagers will tell you so. For paradise does
... See moreRebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
The way we live in the United States is not normal
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The funny thing is, getting away from materialism on such a large scale—whatever the virtues of that switch—really, really hurts. It is the hurt that we in America are living right now.
Tyler Cowen • The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better: A Penguin eSpecial from Dutton
to help poor people pursue the American Dream.