Surviving Capitalism (Not) : The One Percent: These Days, Men Are the Gold Diggers

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Saturday, September 18, 2010

The One Percent: These Days, Men Are the Gold Diggers

by Jamie Johnson from Vanity Fair.

This is this week's contribution to help ordinary working folks keep connected with the one percent of Americans and their lives. In this article we learn another way to get ahead during these difficult economic times.

...there seems to be a consensus among the upwardly mobile that the nation has entered something of an economic Dark Age, where virtually all efforts to get rich the old-fashioned way through hard work and ingenuity are futile.