Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis - Robert D. Putnam Audiobook
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Inequality Neoliberalism Capitalism Social-mobility
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A groundbreaking examination of the growing inequality gap from the best-selling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have the opportunity for upward mobility.
It’s the American dream: get a good education, work hard, buy a house, and achieve prosperity and success. This is the America we believe in - a nation of opportunity, constrained only by ability and effort. But during the last 25 years we have seen a disturbing “opportunity gap” emerge. Americans have always believed in equality of opportunity, the idea that all kids, regardless of their family background, should have a decent chance to improve their lot in life. Now, this central tenet of the American dream seems no longer true or at the least, much less true than it was. Robert Putnam - about whom The Economist said, “his scholarship is wide-ranging, his intelligence luminous, his tone modest, his prose unpretentious and frequently funny” - offers a personal but also authoritative look at this new American crisis. Putnam begins with his high school class of 1959 in Port Clinton, Ohio. By and large the vast majority of those students - “our kids” - went on to lives better than those of their parents. But their children and grandchildren have had harder lives amid diminishing prospects. Putnam tells the tale of lessening opportunity through poignant life stories of rich and poor kids from cities and suburbs across the country, drawing on a formidable body of research done especially for this book.
Our Kids is a rare combination of individual testimony and rigorous evidence. Putnam provides a disturbing account of the American dream that should initiate a deep examination of the future of our country.
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This post has 3 comments with rating of 1/5
February 24th, 2019
put the blame where it belongs! the socialist National Education Association is the worst thing that ever happened to american education! we will probably never recover, especially seeing how leftist out higher education has warped to the enemy of the people and democracy.
February 24th, 2019
This decline in opportunity relates directly to globalism (fostered by both sides of the political fence), automation, mass immigration (which has widened the unskilled labour pool and suppresses wage levels), transfer of tech overseas, and increased competition in all tech and manufacturing industries from the Asian Tigers especially, combined with little to no policy of government working in tandem with the business sector to foster and protect industry (at least within the country). This compares very unfavourably with Japan and Germany.
The current woes are also in part due to abysmal education standards, rising housing costs which are out-pacing wage levels, debt-dependency (both on a private and public level), the economic meltdown which arose largely from deregulation of the banking and finance markets (thanks mainly to Reagan and Bush senior & junior) — in short the interests of lobby groups being put ahead of average citizens. Clinton was also responsible for damaging NAFTA deals.
One has to also wonder at the efficacy of the Millennial generation, which has been cosseted and brainwashed by neomarxism to see capitalism, the only system that has produced affluence, as entirely evil, while they get in to debt indulging in all the products it generates.
March 3rd, 2019
Perhaps the worst deficit that the upcoming generations seem to be lacking is problem solving. Screens are one of the biggest issues at play. Previous generations did not know how to deal with Modernism their selves, so how could they possibly teach their children?
As far as economic upward mobility is concerned, free market capitalism has done more to cultivate advancement, than most of the social programs, which have often done more harm than good.
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