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No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. JACKPOT is the debut book-length work from Michael Mechanic, the senior editor at Mother Jones. It's a pitiless – but empathic – look at the lives of the (mostly) American super-rich. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Jackpot/Michael-Mechanic/9781982127213 The sociology of wealth is an odd paradox. On the one hand, many of the wealthiest people are celebrities (both in the sense that celebrities are wealthy, and that wealth creates celebrity). On the other, plutes don't usually unburden themselves to social scientists. By contrast, we know an awful lot about college kids (because they're easy for university-affiliated researchers to study) and poor people (who need the pitiful budgets available to researchers to compensate their subjects). The wealthy produce accounts of themselves, of course – through publicists and reputation management firms and vicious att

Today's links Jackpot : Inequality sucks…for everyone. Bill Gates will kill us all : Elite philanthropy created vaccine apartheid. What "IP" means : Control over customers, critics and competitors. Data-brokerages vs the world : The public-private partnership from hell. This day in history : 2006, 2011, 2016 Colophon : Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Jackpot ( permalink ) JACKPOT is the debut book-length work from Michael Mechanic, the senior editor at Mother Jones. It's a pitiless – but empathic – look at the lives

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