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Aug 24, 2021 · Chapter 1: an old story: the zero sum hierarchy. White people see race issues as a zero sum game. Colonizers shaped their racist ideologies to justify their genocide and enslavement against black and brown people. They set up a zero sum relationship between master and slave. The formula for profit = revenue – cost.
Feb 16, 2021 · Succinctly put: the zero sum story tells us that if people of color have equitable access to education, healthcare, rights, or money, that white people always lose out when that happens. Using this framework, she makes a strong case that contrary to what white people have been taught to fear, we all lose out when we propagate the zero sum story (then make policy off this model).
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Feb 23, 2021 · But “The Sum of Us” is predicated on the idea that little will change until white people realize what racism has cost them too. The material legacy of slavery can be felt to this day, McGhee ...
The Sum of Us would be almost unbearably grim if not for McGhee’s positive claim, which is that Americans can and should embrace a new, positive-sum narrative that will end the Inequality Era and kickstart a new era of shared prosperity. The key is for downtrodden people of all stripes to band together in pursuit of a “Solidarity Dividend” that will grow and redistribute American wealth ...
This is the story of how public goods in this country—from parks and pools to functioning schools—have become private luxuries; of how unions collapsed, wages stagnated, and inequality increased; and of how this country, unique among the world’s advanced economies, has thwarted universal healthcare.But in unlikely places of worship and work, McGhee finds proof of what she calls the ...
Feb 8, 2022 · Look for the author’s podcast, The Sum of Us, based on this book! Heather McGhee’s specialty is the American economy—and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public. From the financial crisis of 2008 to rising student debt to collapsing public infrastructure, she found a root problem: racism in our politics and policymaking.
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Feb 12, 2022 · The story of Lewiston, Maine, is a story of politics being what politics is of the mayor and the governor were anti immigrant and had this harsh anti immigrant rhetoric and actually connected it to welfare said, you know, all these immigrants are coming in and they’re getting on welfare, the old zero sum story, right.
