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Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good

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By (author): Chuck Collins

As heard on NPR's Fresh Air

This empowering light into a brighter future is a narrative you wont want to miss. Ralph Nader 

Collins not only talks the talk but walks the walk...this is a worthwhile book to read, digest, and share Publishers Weekly

An essential piece of reading for anyone concerned by the increasing wealth inequalitymade worse by the global pandemic and political partisanship

The growing wealth inequality continues to dominate headlines. The divide between the haves and have nots in America is increasingly political and tensions are rising. On one side, the wealthy wield power and advantage, keeping the system operating in their favorall while retreating into enclaves that separate them further and further from the poor and working class. On the other side, those who find it increasingly difficult to keep up or get ahead are desperate and frustrated waging a rhetorical war against the rich and letting anger and resentment keep us from seeing new potential solutions.

But can we suspend both class wars long enough to consider a new way forward? Is it really good for anyone that most of societys wealth is pooling at the very top of the wealth ladder? Does anyone, including the one percent, really want to live in a society plagued by economic

apartheid?

It is time to think differently, says longtime inequality expert and activist Chuck Collins. Born into the one percent, Collins gave away his inheritance at 26 and spent the next three decades mobilizing against inequality. He uses his perspective from both sides of the divide to deliver a

new narrative.

Collins calls for a ceasefire and invites the wealthy to come back home, investing themselves and their wealth in struggling communities. And he asks the non-wealthy to build alliances with the one percent and others at the top of the wealth ladder.

Stories told along the way explore the roots of advantage, show how taxpayers subsidize the wealthy, and reveal how charity, used incorrectly, can actually reinforce extreme inequality. Readers meet pioneers who are crossing the divide to work together in new ways, including residents in the authors own Boston-area neighborhood who have launched some of the most interesting community transition efforts in the nation.

In the end, Collinss national and local solutions not only challenge inequality but also respond to climate change and offer an unexpected, fresh take on one of our most intransigent problems.

 

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Product Details
  • Weight: 431g
  • Dimensions: 153 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 17 Oct 2016
  • Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Co
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781603586832

About Chuck Collins

Chuck Collins is a researcher campaigner storyteller and writer based at the Institute for Policy Studies where he co-edits Inequality.org. He has written extensively on wealth inequality in previous books like 99 to 1 Wealth and Our Commonwealth (with Bill Gates Sr.) and Economic Apartheid in America as well as in The Nation The American Prospect and numerous other magazines and news outlets. Collins grew up in the 1 percent as the great grandson of meatpacker Oscar Mayer but at age 26 he gave away his inheritance. He has been working to reduce inequality and strengthen communities since 1982 and in the process has cofounded numerous initiatives including Wealth for the Common Good (now merged with the Patriotic Millionaires) United for a Fair Economy and Divest-Invest. He is also a leader in the transition movement and a co-founder of the Jamaica Plain New Economy Transition and the Jamaica Plain Forum both in the Boston-area community in which he lives.

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