Podcasts about new american aristocracy

Emma hosts philosopher and historian Matthew Stewart to discuss his recent book The 9.9 Percent: The New Aristocracy That Is Entrenching Inequality And Warping Our Culture, on the class of people that cement the divide between the top .1%, and the bottom 90%. They begin by addressing what this segment is, exploring the people that neither make up corporate executive levels nor the working class, and the rapid isolation of this group – both physically and economically. Looking into the geographical elements, Matthew and Emma explore how certain white neighborhoods have isolated the ability to build wealth and stability by dominating the worlds of political regulations and real estate, and how this came as a response to their built wealth, rather than being a reflection of the intelligence that help bring them there.  Next, they dive into the social developments around this isolation, the culture of parental curation that has developed, and how extreme inequality has shown to cause more extreme parenting tactics as the risks of the world grow around you, before they look at how the creation of this aristocracy class has also coincided with an incredible drop in social mobility in the US. They also touch on the role of higher education in bolstering both the legitimacy and exclusivity of this class, before they get into how race is built into this inequality, from the clear disproportion of demographics between the top .1 and 9.9 percent and the US as a whole, to real estate discrimination, and how the discussion of race is explicitly disconnected from economic inequality. They wrap up the interview by touching on the collective nature of stress and how the current system piles stress on the bottom 90%, while representing it as an individual struggle, before Emma and Matthew walk through the Venn diagram between aristocracy class and the professional-managerial class. Emma also touches on Tucker and Nigel Farage debating whether Boris Johnson was feminized by COVID or his wife, and a Starbucks manager's whistleblowing on union-busting. And in the Fun Half: Matt and Brandon join Emma as they take on the Fox Square Bloody Christmas incident, which Fox and friends aptly dubs as a hate crime against the protected class of conservative talking heads, Bobby from FL calls in to discuss the growing red hue of Florida's political lean, and Rep. Erica Layon reminds us that the three-fifths clause was actually a pro-Black sentiment. Felix from Manhattan ignites Emma's inner edge lord by accidentally referring to Chess as a sport during a crypto exchange, and Warren from Toronto discusses holding our political leaders accountable. They also cover the success of the Buffalo Starbucks' unionization effort, plus, your calls and IMs! Purchase tickets for the live show in Boston on January 16th HERE! https://thewilbur.com/artist/majority-report/ Become a member at JoinTheMajorityReport.com Subscribe to the AMQuickie newsletter here. Join the Majority Report Discord! http://majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ (Merch issues and concerns can be addressed here: majorityreportstore@mirrorimage.com) You can now watch the livestream on Twitch Support the St. Vincent Nurses today as they continue to strike for a fair contract! https://action.massnurses.org/we-stand-with-st-vincents-nurses/ Subscribe to Discourse Blog, a newsletter and website for progressive essays and related fun partly run by AM Quickie writer Jack Crosbie. https://discourseblog.com/ Subscribe to AM Quickie writer Corey Pein's podcast News from Nowhere, at https://www.patreon.com/newsfromnowhere Check out Matt's show, Left Reckoning, on Youtube, and subscribe on Patreon! Subscribe to Matt's other show Literary Hangover on Patreon! Check out The Letterhack's upcoming Kickstarter project for his new graphic novel! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/milagrocomic/milagro-heroe-de-las-calles Check out Matt Binder's YouTube channel! Subscribe to Brandon's show The Discourse on Patreon! Check out The Nomiki Show live at 3 pm ET on YouTube at patreon.com/thenomikishow Check out Jamie's podcast, The Antifada, at patreon.com/theantifada, on iTunes, or at twitch.tv/theantifada (streaming every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 7pm ET!) Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattBinder @MattLech @BF1nn @BradKAlsop

Ernie shares the "inconvenient truth" he has been wrestling with:  Is caste, and seeking an advantage for our children, at the root of systemic racism?  Are all our Christian institutions founded on the belief that "there have to be differences among you to show which of you have God's approval?"And if that is true, what path do we have to walk in order to bring the Body of Christ to repentance and unity? And can we do it without insisting on confession?References It's More Than Racism: Isabel Wilkerson Explains America's 'Caste' System The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy

This episode is all about the mighty dollar's relationship with humans and work.  We dive deep into: Does money motivate people at work? Your relationship with money and why that matters Implications for organizations and for us as individual people   Show Notes Pfeffer, J. (1998). Six dangerous myths about pay. Harvard Business Review, 76(3), 109-120. https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA20567116&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=00178012&p=AONE&sw=w  Dunn, E. W., Aknin, L. B., & Norton, M. I. (2008). Spending money on others promotes happiness. Science, 319(5870), 1687-1688. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/319/5870/1687.long?casa_token=03XvPmXw4IQAAAAA:_x-EIemt8mCnQKZGCxXszH3R4fkqdv1FHOE4jayec-o6udPIB-prtimDg_MpP7PoWUwpObVE_62N6A  Boyce, C. J., Brown, G. D., & Moore, S. C. (2010). Money and happiness: Rank of income, not income, affects life satisfaction. Psychological science, 21(4), 471-475. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0956797610362671?casa_token=oef6k-m0a68AAAAA%3As-guoATHc76FfWzS6q4yrGZFdTzrZr65Nh5MCi9Z-GI6FPsMSWBog3wi1H7hEYK4-m7ezBbS9tpf Quoidbach, J., Dunn, E. W., Petrides, K. V., & Mikolajczak, M. (2010). Money giveth, money taketh away: The dual effect of wealth on happiness. Psychological science, 21(6), 759-763. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0956797610371963?casa_token=jbNlYjbnCssAAAAA%3ANAN5GsOaZLvkTFkY4i6l8Vrezb8LkwFM6pqDgxQnzw6_hQmo_iEIaozuqUNbzx4yhc-C-NTKWqo6 The Birth of the New American Aristocracy: 2018 article in The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/the-birth-of-a-new-american-aristocracy/559130/

By Pete Bowen and Bailey Bowen SON OF A SHARECROPPER In mid-February—just two months and a lifetime ago—my wife and I were in her hometown of Dothan, Alabama, for her high school reunion and to spend time with her father. My father-in-law is the son of a sharecropper without much formal education. He grew up in one of the very poorest areas of the US, his bedroom the covered porch of a country house. He became a union pipe-fitter working at paper mills and nuclear power plants. His wife had a good job working for the state. My in-laws owned their own home, had several businesses over the years, and even bought a brand-new Cadillac. In the 1970’s, that meant that you had accomplished something. More important than any of that, they had a strong marriage and very good friends and they were happy. My mother-in-law passed almost exactly 3 years ago. Hundreds came to her funeral not from obligation, but from love and respect. My father-in-law misses her deeply, but he carries on, day-to-day, supported by and supportive of all those friends. He’s a guy who will drive 10 hours to help you change a car tire—whether he’s met you or not. WAFFLE HOUSE: WISDOM AND CONTEMPT We visit Dothan a couple times a year and we always make it a point to have at least one meal at the Waffle House around the corner. It’s been a thing for 30 years. So, in mid-February, we’re having a midnight breakfast at the Waffle House. We have the privilege of being served by Shea, a young woman who is working 3rd shift to cover for a co-worker. Shea always fills my coffee cup at exactly the right moment—often coming from across the room. “How do you always know when I need coffee?” I ask. “I can tell by the angle you hold the cup when you drink,” she tells me. Maybe that’s something that all servers know. Maybe she figured out on her own. Either way, I respect her wisdom and am better for listening to it. When many of my friends, comfortable in the economic top 10% of America, found out I eat at Waffle House, they looked at me like I’m crazy.   They wouldn’t be caught dead at a Waffle House. Ever. Wrong kind of food. Wrong kind of people. A few years ago, a friend group passed around an online quiz that analyzed you based on where you’ve eaten. Applebees and Chilis and similar restaurants were on the list. They mocked the restaurants and the “type of people” who eat at them. THE 9.9% AMERICAN ARISTOCRACY Many of us are firmly embedded, by our wealth and attitude, in what Matthew Stewart called the American Aristocracy in his essay The 9.9 Percent is the New American Aristocracy from The Atlantic. Stewart differentiates the top .01% of ultra-rich Americans from the 9.9% of the rising American Aristocracy from the 90% of the rest of Americans. A major point of the essay is that the 90% have very little opportunity or hope of rising into the new, 9.9% aristocracy. According to Stewart—and I think he has this right—the top 9.9% see themselves as “meritocratic winners” with attitudes of “its good to be us” and “we’re crushing the competition below.” They have “mastered the old trick of consolidating their wealth and privilege, and passing it along to their kids.” While I think Stewart gets some conclusions wrong, his data about and description of the 9.9% American Aristocracy are compelling. Stewart says that we, the American Aristocrats, have locked in, for ourselves, huge advantages in education, jobs, family stability, neighborhood and health. We’re smarter. We’re richer. We have more prestigious jobs and a much lower divorce rate. We live in better neighborhoods and go to better schools. We’re better people because, well, look at what we’ve accomplished. We spend our time talking only to the right people (that’s us) with the right attitudes about the right topics in the right restaurants. It becomes an echo chamber where we know that we are right because all the other educated people like us ...

By Pete Bowen and Bailey Bowen SON OF A SHARECROPPER In mid-February—just two months and a lifetime ago—my wife and I were in her hometown of Dothan, Alabama, for her high school reunion and to spend time with her father. My father-in-law is the son of a sharecropper without much formal education. He grew up in one of the very poorest areas of the US, his bedroom the covered porch of a country house. He became a union pipe-fitter working at paper mills and nuclear power plants. His wife had a good job working for the state. My in-laws owned their own home, had several businesses over the years, and even bought a brand-new Cadillac. In the 1970’s, that meant that you had accomplished something. More important than any of that, they had a strong marriage and very good friends and they were happy. My mother-in-law passed almost exactly 3 years ago. Hundreds came to her funeral not from obligation, but from love and respect. My father-in-law misses her deeply, but he carries on, day-to-day, supported by and supportive of all those friends. He’s a guy who will drive 10 hours to help you change a car tire—whether he’s met you or not. WAFFLE HOUSE: WISDOM AND CONTEMPT We visit Dothan a couple times a year and we always make it a point to have at least one meal at the Waffle House around the corner. It’s been a thing for 30 years. So, in mid-February, we’re having a midnight breakfast at the Waffle House. We have the privilege of being served by Shea, a young woman who is working 3rd shift to cover for a co-worker. Shea always fills my coffee cup at exactly the right moment—often coming from across the room. “How do you always know when I need coffee?” I ask. “I can tell by the angle you hold the cup when you drink,” she tells me. Maybe that’s something that all servers know. Maybe she figured out on her own. Either way, I respect her wisdom and am better for listening to it. When many of my friends, comfortable in the economic top 10% of America, found out I eat at Waffle House, they looked at me like I’m crazy.   They wouldn’t be caught dead at a Waffle House. Ever. Wrong kind of food. Wrong kind of people. A few years ago, a friend group passed around an online quiz that analyzed you based on where you’ve eaten. Applebees and Chilis and similar restaurants were on the list. They mocked the restaurants and the “type of people” who eat at them. THE 9.9% AMERICAN ARISTOCRACY Many of us are firmly embedded, by our wealth and attitude, in what Matthew Stewart called the American Aristocracy in his essay The 9.9 Percent is the New American Aristocracy from The Atlantic. Stewart differentiates the top .01% of ultra-rich Americans from the 9.9% of the rising American Aristocracy from the 90% of the rest of Americans. A major point of the essay is that the 90% have very little opportunity or hope of rising into the new, 9.9% aristocracy. According to Stewart—and I think he has this right—the top 9.9% see themselves as “meritocratic winners” with attitudes of “its good to be us” and “we’re crushing the competition below.” They have “mastered the old trick of consolidating their wealth and privilege, and passing it along to their kids.” While I think Stewart gets some conclusions wrong, his data about and description of the 9.9% American Aristocracy are compelling. Stewart says that we, the American Aristocrats, have locked in, for ourselves, huge advantages in education, jobs, family stability, neighborhood and health. We’re smarter. We’re richer. We have more prestigious jobs and a much lower divorce rate. We live in better neighborhoods and go to better schools. We’re better people because, well, look at what we’ve accomplished. We spend our time talking only to the right people (that’s us) with the right attitudes about the right topics in the right restaurants. It becomes an echo chamber where we know that we are right because all the other educated people like us ...

Ben and David continue the Acquired holiday tradition... in special, extended LP form. Happy holidays to everyone and thank you for being a Limited Partner!   Note: we apologize for David's sound quality... we're still working out the kinks on our mobile recording setup.   Extended carve out links: Books:  David: Broken Earth trilogy https://www.amazon.com/gp/bookseries/B01947LZ8A Ben: eBoys https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FC1HTG/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 Article:  David: “My Dad's Friendship With Charles Barkley” http://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2018/12/14/lin-wang-charles-barkley Ben: Birth of a New American Aristocracy https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/the-birth-of-a-new-american-aristocracy/559130/ Podcast:  David: 996 Podcast https://996.ggvc.com/category/podcast/ Ben: Dissect Season 2 https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/dissect/id1143845868?mt=2 Music:  David: Tiny Desk concerts https://www.npr.org/series/tiny-desk-concerts/ Ben: Odesza's A Moment Apart & https://open.spotify.com/album/3VzsvmhnUb9OZ59bq2aoNZ?si=dHUDPR4tSW2u6yey0MWTFw TV / Movie:  Both: Black Panther https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1825683/ App:  David: Steady Health https://steady.health Ben: Moment https://www.shopmoment.com Weather Line: http://weatherlineapp.com Auto Sleep http://autosleep.tantsissa.com

In this grab bag of a Labor Day podcast, the trio of Oxford, Mark, and Sammi (a returning guest from Ep. 36: Difficulties in Asian Women-to-Women Dialogues About WMAF) go from lauding the new John Cho movie "Searching" to eventually getting fed up at how neglected poor Asian Americans are in our current social and political climate. Along the way, we diss the Racist OC Barbie Lawyer and #walkaway Youtube nano-celebrity, Zach Hing. Intro/Outro Song: "Think (ft. Jay Park)" by Reddy Intro Voice Track: John Cho on His Parents & New Movie "Searching" (Jimmy Kimmel Live!) TWITTER: Oxford (@oxford_kondo) Mark (@snbatman) REFERENCED RESOURCES: Amy Yu abduction in Allentown, Pennsylvania: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/03/18/a-mom-suspected-her-teen-daughter-was-dating-a-45-year-old-police-found-them-together-in-mexico/?utm_term=.81cfa90fbac2 Abduction and murder of Yingying Zhang at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-chinese-scholar-ui-kidnapping-20180116-story.html California Lawyer Makes Racially-Charged Comments Over ‘Crazy Rich Asians’: https://deadline.com/2018/09/crazy-rich-asians-searching-christina-ignatius-racist-orange-county-diversity-inclusion-asian-amerians-1202455928/ The Asian American Age (by Ross Douthat): https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/opinion/asian-american-harvard-lawsuit.html The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/the-birth-of-a-new-american-aristocracy/559130/ Zach Hing's #walkaway story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTq-hkR-yAc "Not My White Savior" by Julayne Lee: https://www.amazon.com/Not-My-White-Savior-Memoir/dp/1945572434 "The Hundred-Year Flood" by Matthew Salesses: https://www.amazon.com/Hundred-Year-Flood-Matthew-Salesses/dp/1477829547 "A Cruelty Special To Our Species: Poems" by Emily Yoon: https://www.amazon.com/Cruelty-Special-Our-Species-Poems/dp/0062843680 "My Year of Rest and Relaxation" by Ottessa Moshfegh: https://www.amazon.com/Year-Rest-Relaxation-Ottessa-Moshfegh/dp/0525522115

This is one of my favorite interviews, and a conversation that is crucial for understanding and revealing the hidden influences that shape many of our views on society, wealth and power. I have heard terms like white privilege (which applies to me), but I hadn't thought to look into the notion of invisible privilege until earlier this year. You may think it doesn't apply to you (as I used to), especially if you're not in the "Top 1%." But as a recent Atlantic article revealed, The 9.9 Percent is the New American Aristocracy, privilege is something that affects more of us than we might immediately self-identify with, particularly for many who see themselves as part of the "middle class." (A necessary note: some of you may be in the Top 1%—and you're welcome here!—and some of you may be struggling to get by, and  you're welcome here too). After hearing it thrown around quite a bit in social change circles, I got curious. What does invisible privilege really mean? How does it affect me, and others like me? And how does it relate to broader social change? I'm so grateful for Karen Pittleman, who answers these questions with kindness, compassion, and clarity in this week's conversation. I can't wait for you to hear her story of giving away a $3 million trust fund when she turned 24 years old (now she's given over $13 million to activist-led funds), and her input on how we can all work together to redistribute wealth and power as we work toward a more just society.  

We've discovered that it's hard to talk about what you think is important without talking about what everyone is talking about, so we set a timer to tick through the public frenzy stories of the week: the pardon memo, Roseanne and Samantha Bee, and the Bill Clinton interview. Then, we get down to business, talking about contemplated cuts to U.S. Special Forces in Africa and the Niger report, the impact of trade tariffs on America's alliances in the world, and news that Facebook had partnerships with 60 device makers involve data-sharing. Sarah shares a quick update on the Supreme Court's decision in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case. To celebrate Pride Month, we're highlighting the accomplishments of LGBTQ leaders every Tuesday. Today, we feature Annise Parker, former mayor of Houston and President and CEO of the Victory Fund. For our main segment, we discuss Matthew Stewart's "The Birth of the New American Aristocracy," income equality, insecurity, and living in relationship with each other. Outside of politics, Beth is thinking about music and Sarah about summer family fun. Recommended Resources: Contemplated Special Forces Cuts in Africa Lessons from the Niger Report Justin Trudeau Interview Macron and Trump Call Facebook and Data SharingThe Victory Fund Annise Parker on Family Annise Parker Family (video) The Birth of the New American Aristocracy Richard Rohr on The Third Way A Book That Takes Its Time Thanks to our sponsors, Stitcher Premium, Grove.co, and ModCloth. To support Pantsuit Politics, please visit Patreon.com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.