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A thing I’ve learned in the last 5-2 years is that a huge amount of this country’s problems boil down to a culture that celebrates being an asshole, to the extent that many Americans will act like assholes even when it hurts themselves materially.
Some of this is about power. Just as working class people will give up, say, wages in order to have more control over their workdays and lives, rich people give up material things (e.g. better health outcomes) to keep more control of society.
Two key texts on the preceding tweet: David Montgomery’s classic essay “Worker Control of Machine Production in 19th Century America” (labor disputes are about power), The Spirit Level (rich people in unequal places have worse outcomes than rich people in more equal society), and
