Another great book from Robert Reich. Talks about the currently lost sense of the "Common Good" that has lead to wealth and power concentration who the operate the economic and political systems for their own personal benefit. Also includes some suggestions about how to begin to turn things around. ( )

A simple, straightforward argument that we have abandoned any concept of the common good in order to privilege a whatever-it-takes mentality.
"[T]hree exploitations of trust set off chain reactions that have undermined the common good: Whatever-it-takes-to-win politics disregarded what had been the unwritten rules of good government, based on equal political rights--enabling the most powerful players to extract all political gains. Whatever-it-takes-to-maximize-profits rejected what had been the unwritten rules of corporate responsibility, based on obligations to all stakeholders--allowing CEOs, Wall Street, and investors to extract all financial gains. Whatever it takes to rig the economy dismissed what had been the unwritten rule that the "free market" should work for everyone--permitting the most powerful economic actors to extract almost all economic gains." (90) ( )

While this book was written by an author whom I vaguely remember in my youth as having been more conservative, or right-wing, than what I was comfortable with in more recent times, I now see him as more moderate, perhaps because I am now looking through the lens of what we see here, in these very polarizing times. That is rightly what he tries to take aim at in his book: despite what I see as some rather unfair critiques that he levels at former President Obama, he is working to make us all understand that it is The Common Good, which has always been at the center of American thought, that he is talking about in a most urgent way. And on that, we can certainly agree.

Let's #EndPoverty by improving these four parts of our Public Domain Social Infrastructure: (1. #libraries, 2. #ProBono legal aid and Education, 3. #UniversalHealthCare , and 4. good #publictransport )
Read, Write, Dream, Walk !

#PublicDomainInfrastructure
Shira
7 May, 12018 HE
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While this book was written by an author whom I vaguely remember in my youth as having been more conservative, or right-wing, than what I was comfortable with in more recent times, I now see him as more moderate, perhaps because I am now looking through the lens of what we see here, in these very polarizing times. That is rightly what he tries to take aim at in his book: despite what I see as some rather unfair critiques that he levels at former President Obama, he is working to make us all understand that it is The Common Good, which has always been at the center of American thought, that he is talking about in a most urgent way. And on that, we can certainly agree.

Let's #EndPoverty by improving these four parts of our Public Domain Social Infrastructure: (1. #libraries, 2. #ProBono legal aid and Education, 3. #UniversalHealthCare , and 4. good #publictransport )
Read, Write, Dream, Walk !

#PublicDomainInfrastructure
Shira
7 May, 12018 HE
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