The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy and the End of Opportunity For Everyone Else

The meritocratic class has mastered the old trick of consolidating wealth and passing privilege along at the expense of other people’s children.

The class divide is already toxic, and is fast becoming unbridgeable. You’re probably part of the problem.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/the-birth-of-a-new-american-aristocracy/559130/

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Why are poor people in America so patriotic? One man went on an odyssey to find out

Francesco Duina visited bus stations and laundromats to find out why inequality’s victims still love America

Chauncey DeVega

https://www.salon.com/2018/06/11/why-are-poor-people-in-america-so-patriotic-one-man-went-on-an-odyssey-to-find-out/