In *Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream*, #AlissaQuart - director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project - addresses the #MeritocraticDelusion of the #SelfMadeMan, the story that, in America, the rich are good, and therefore the good are rich, and therefore the dwindling slice of the pie shared among everyone else is no more than they deserve:

https://www.harpercollins.com/products/bootstrapped-alissa-quart?variant=40517189599266

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Good interview with Alissa Quart, director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. Marketplace posted a short excerpt from her book, but imo listening to the interview was more valuable than reading the book excerpt:
https://www.marketplace.org/2023/04/03/in-bootstrapped-self-made-a-dystopian-social-safety-net-in-america/
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#inequality #economics #Marketplace #AlissaQuart #poverty #podcast #books #usa