Twilight of the Elites Unabridged - Christopher Hayes Audiobook

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  jerb
  March 22nd, 2017
  

  Yay, more class warfare crap. I’m doing just fine and I’m not a 1%er. You know why? I avoid debt like the plague. Boom, #1 key to financial success. My check comes in and I don’t owe it to anyone. I had to drive a clunker while my friends drove nice new cars and I had to live it a dump until I could save up enough to buy my first fixer upper. But now I am winning. Dave Ramsey is a good source of free financial advice.

  Twilight of the Elites Unabridged - Christopher Hayes
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  nope
  March 22nd, 2017
  

  It’s nice to see that you haven’t actually even tried to read/listen the book.
  Hell, you couldn’t even be bothered to read the blurb above.

  Yet, you deem yourself an expert on it and even somewhat of a righteously vexed victim of said book you know nothing about.
  Do you practice prejudice at work, while “winning”, or is it more of a hobby?

  Twilight of the Elites Unabridged - Christopher Hayes
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  yep
  March 22nd, 2017
  

  Well, considering the author he really didn’t have to read the blurb.

  This is bunko pop sociology meant to give HRC voters the warm fuzzies about supporting one of the most corrupt individuals in American politics because she’d been around for so long - they call that “qualified”.

  Twilight of the Elites Unabridged - Christopher Hayes
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  Zipang
  March 22nd, 2017
  

  The idea of Chris Hayes, who makes six million dollars a year, writing about the dangers of the ultra-rich is beyond laughable. Maybe next he can team up with Paul Krugman, who gets paid 225k a year by City University of New York to ’study’ income inequality from his 1.5 million apartment.

  When the revolution comes it’ll be scum like this who are among the first put up against the wall and shot.

  Twilight of the Elites Unabridged - Christopher Hayes
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  nope
  March 22nd, 2017
  

  And two more non-readers check in!

  You know guys, just because it’s an audio book site, it doesn’t mean you have to declare yourself as a “books on tape” kinda reader.
  But it is nice to see unbridled prejudice AND proud ignorance of facts walking hand in hand.

  Particularly when a dunce with not enough brain cells to rub together blathers about “meant to give HRC voters the warm fuzzies” - about a book which came out in 2012.
  But one does wonder if all you guys suck that wisdom out of the same hole.
  Or is it more of a human centipede kind of a situation.

  Anyway, shouldn’t you guys be on some other torrent?
  One of those books about “winning”, making your first million, how to talk to girls etc.?

  Twilight of the Elites Unabridged - Christopher Hayes
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  Zipang
  March 22nd, 2017
  

  None of my facts are incorrect.

  Twilight of the Elites Unabridged - Christopher Hayes
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  jerb
  March 23rd, 2017
  

  Right? It was like that heifer Michael Moore showing up at Occupy Wallstreet whining about the rich. Guy is so loaded it’s ridiculous.

  But yes, I based my comment on the POS author rather than the POS book. My bad. My input stands, go cry about the mean ‘ol 1%ers.

  Twilight of the Elites Unabridged - Christopher Hayes
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  Oh brother
  March 23rd, 2017
  

  Great, more leftwing nonsense from liberal America. No need to read this garbage. The author is known for his pseudo-scientific practice of grasping at straws.

  Twilight of the Elites Unabridged - Christopher Hayes
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  Biggin
  March 24th, 2017
  

  In answer to the armchair experts, some actual reviews: From the American Conservative: A powerful critique of the meritocratic elite that has overseen one of the most disastrous periods of recent history. From Forbes: Twilight of the Elites is a engaging, insightful book. I finished it in less than 24 hours, and I encourage you to pick up a copy. From the Economist: In a very good new book titled Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy, Chris Hayes offers one of the most compelling assessments of how soaring inequality is changing American society.
  In short: Good post!

  Twilight of the Elites Unabridged - Christopher Hayes
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  Zipang
  March 24th, 2017
  

  Nothing Hayes says here is fundamentally incorrect. Only someone completely out of touch with reality would dismiss the extreme income inequality now present, both in the US and globally, as ‘pseudo-scientific’.
  http://inequality.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/20.-Share-of-Total-Assets-2-e1455659639255.png

  The issue though is in getting this information from someone like Chris Hayes. He himself is a servant of the one-percent, and a multimillionaire member of the top ten-percent. I simply wouldn’t be inclined to trust that he isn’t restraining his critique, or omitting information. That it gets good reviews from establishment sources doesn’t impress me. I spend most of my time with writers like John Pilger and Adolph Reed, people the mainstream almost entirely ignores.

  You can get much more trustworthy information on these subjects from less compromised sources, see for instance:

  http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/10/unattainable-illusion-meritocracy.html

  http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/09/michael-hudson-celebrating-the-one-percent-is-inequality-really-good-for-the-economy.html

  Twilight of the Elites Unabridged - Christopher Hayes
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  jerb
  March 25th, 2017
  

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc_3EXt4BY0

  http://louderwithcrowder.com/debunking-the-myth-of-widening-income-inequality-in-america/

  aaaaaaand just because it’s awesome:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSyPgQeGlgU

  Twilight of the Elites Unabridged - Christopher Hayes
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  Zipang
  March 26th, 2017
  

  Seriously? Steven Crowder? The guy not only knows nothing, he’s literally a liar.

  Some facts at a glance:

  http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/moneybox/2014/09/25/how_the_rich_conquered_the_economy_in_one_chart/pavlina_tcherneva.jpg.CROP.promovar-mediumlarge.jpg

  http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/images/wealth/Net_worth_and_financial_wealth.gif

  If you want to actually act like a thinking adult for once and delve into the real meat of the issue, here are some academic papers on these and related subjects (you’ll have to search them yourself, ABB keeps insisting my post is spam if I include the links):

  The Disappearing Middle Class: Implications for
  Politics and Public Policy
  Trevor Richard Beltz
  Claremont McKenna College

  The Asset Price Meltdown and the Wealth of the Middle Class
  Edward N. Wolff
  The National Bureau of Economic Research

  The Dynamics of Wealth Inequality and the Effect of Income Distribution
  Yonatan Berman, Eshel Ben-Jacob,Yoash Shapira

  Wealth, Income, and Power
  G. William Domhoff
  University of California at Santa Cruz

  Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st century
  Anne Case1 and Angus Deaton
  Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Department of Economics, Princeton University

  Mortality and morbidity in the 21st century
  Anne Case and Sir Angus Deaton
  Brookings Institute

  Or you can just keep listening to what an idiot like Crowder says.

  Twilight of the Elites Unabridged - Christopher Hayes
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  Zipang
  March 28th, 2017
  

  Steven Crowder? Seriously?

  Twilight of the Elites Unabridged - Christopher Hayes
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  Zipnada
  March 28th, 2017
  

  I could’ve been Bill Cosby, the points are valid.

  Twilight of the Elites Unabridged - Christopher Hayes
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  Zipnada
  March 28th, 2017
  

  It could’ve been Bill Cosby, the points are valid.

  Twilight of the Elites Unabridged - Christopher Hayes
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  Zipang
  March 30th, 2017
  

  No, the points aren’t remotely valid.

  The key issues at a glance:

  http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/MiddleClass_6.png

  http://www.correntewire.com/files/productivity-wages.jpg

  http://www.the-crises.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/income-inequality-usa-05.jpg

  And if you want to act like an actual thinking adult for a while there are plenty of academic papers on the subject. ABB is being stupid and insisting my links are all spam though.

  Twilight of the Elites Unabridged - Christopher Hayes
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  Zipnada
  March 31st, 2017
  

  I’m bored with you. Go cry about problems that aren’t problems. This middle classer is doing just fine.

  Twilight of the Elites Unabridged - Christopher Hayes
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  Zipang
  March 31st, 2017
  

  Nice anecdotal fallacy there.

  Twilight of the Elites Unabridged - Christopher Hayes
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  FMDB1387
  February 14th, 2018
  

  please seed or re-update it. thanks

  Twilight of the Elites Unabridged - Christopher Hayes

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