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Jessica Morneault

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Ubuntu and The Self-Made Myth

March 15, 2012 by Jessica Morneault 3 Comments

We’ve all heard rags-to-riches stories about successful individuals who “pulled themselves up by the bootstraps.”  Certainly, many successful business people owe their good fortune to hard work and innovative thinking. But, to describe those people as “self-made” would be to dismiss a big piece of reality—the role of the commons. Would Bill Gates have enjoyed […]

Filed Under: Class cultures, Classist Corporations, Money, Politics and Class, Poverty Tagged With: blaming the victim, class cultures, owning class, privilege, super-rich

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