Does the Richness of the Few Benefit Us All? (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
It is commonly assumed that the best way to help the poor out of
their misery is to allow the rich to get richer, that if the rich
pay less taxes then all the rest of us will be better off, and that
in the final analysis the richness of the few benefits...
their misery is to allow the rich to get richer, that if the rich
pay less taxes then all the rest of us will be better off, and that
in the final analysis the richness of the few benefits...
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It is commonly assumed that the best way to help the poor out of
their misery is to allow the rich to get richer, that if the rich
pay less taxes then all the rest of us will be better off, and that
in the final analysis the richness of the few benefits us all. And
yet these commonly held beliefs are flatly contradicted by our
daily experience, an abundance of research findings and, indeed,
logic. Such bizarre discrepancy between hard facts and popular
opinions makes one pause and ask: why are these opinions so
widespread and resistant to accumulated and fast-growing evidence
to the contrary?
This short book is by one of the world's leading social
thinkers is an attempt to answer this question. Bauman lists and
scrutinizes the tacit assumptions and unreflected-upon convictions
upon which such opinions are grounded, finding them one by one to
be false, deceitful and misleading. Their persistence could be
hardly sustainable were it not for the role they play in defending
- indeed, promoting and reinforcing - the current, unprecedented,
indefensible and still accelerating growth in social inequality and
the rapidly widening gap between the elite of the rich and the rest
of society.
their misery is to allow the rich to get richer, that if the rich
pay less taxes then all the rest of us will be better off, and that
in the final analysis the richness of the few benefits us all. And
yet these commonly held beliefs are flatly contradicted by our
daily experience, an abundance of research findings and, indeed,
logic. Such bizarre discrepancy between hard facts and popular
opinions makes one pause and ask: why are these opinions so
widespread and resistant to accumulated and fast-growing evidence
to the contrary?
This short book is by one of the world's leading social
thinkers is an attempt to answer this question. Bauman lists and
scrutinizes the tacit assumptions and unreflected-upon convictions
upon which such opinions are grounded, finding them one by one to
be false, deceitful and misleading. Their persistence could be
hardly sustainable were it not for the role they play in defending
- indeed, promoting and reinforcing - the current, unprecedented,
indefensible and still accelerating growth in social inequality and
the rapidly widening gap between the elite of the rich and the rest
of society.
Autoren-Porträt von Zygmunt Bauman
Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Leeds, UK. His books have become international bestsellers and have been translated into more than thirty languages. His many publications include Liquid Modernity, Liquid Love, The Art of Life, Living on Borrowed Time and, most recently, This is not a diary.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Zygmunt Bauman
- 2013, 1. Auflage, 86 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 0745679218
- ISBN-13: 9780745679211
- Erscheinungsdatum: 11.07.2013
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