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Author of @WinnersTakeAll (out now from @AAKnopf), THE TRUE AMERICAN, & INDIA CALLING. Ex-@NYTimes. NBC political analyst. TED talker. @PriyaParker's man. Dad.

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    Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 3

    My #LaborDay hope: that ordinary Americans take change back from the winners; and that more of the winners admit to a system that serves them at others’ expense and take the crucial first step to changing it — stepping off of others’ backs.pic.twitter.com/H5gnydCSav

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      2. Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 3

        On #LaborDay, I think of a massage therapist I wrote of who made $90 in some two-week pay periods and $700 in others, who struggled to make an adult life with that uncertainty, because of an issue afflicting millions: companies that jerk around workers’ hours to keep up profits.

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      3. Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 3

        Before anyone richsplains to you that we can all rise together, win-win-win, understand her situation. She is kept in poverty so that the massages are kept cheap or (more likely) so that wage bills are kept low and profits high, and investors kept happy. Her loss is others’ win.

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      4. Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 3

        If we can move into the autumn with one idea in mind, let it be this: all is not a win-win, no matter how often we are told so; and what it will take to make America work again for most people will cost elites something. No such thing as free social reform.

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      5. Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 3

        Trickle-down economics was the lie of the 1980s. Trickle-down social change is the lie of our time. Nothing worth having trickles down from above.pic.twitter.com/3lyekVwMzP

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      2. Tony Tombrillo Jr‏ @bigwheezie Sep 3
        Replying to @AnandWrites

        We can only hope all people see the same way you do

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      3. Grant‏ @grant_1865 Sep 3
        Replying to @bigwheezie @AnandWrites

        Sir - the bottom quintle net receives from the government (taxes paid less transfers) Govt isn't on their back. All that transfer is paid for by the top quintle. And does your friend work for a larger corporate or a small business bc philanthropists don't run small businesspic.twitter.com/C1gb6PoqrR

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      4. Grant‏ @grant_1865 Sep 3
        Replying to @grant_1865 @bigwheezie @AnandWrites

        What Anand preaches is helplessness and victimhood and scapegoating the most successful It's never 'should I improve my skills or is the slightly richer small business owner at fault not the uber rich It's never 'how lucky am I to be born here and not Greece, it's victimhood

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      1. zachary a perin‏ @zap1975 Sep 3
        Replying to @AnandWrites

        Just listened to your @ezraklein podcast. Fascinating and challenging. Thanks for making a tricky argument worth making. Happy to amplify.

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      1. Noëlla Boudart‏ @_noellab Sep 3
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        Have you considered using a term other than "winners"? I think it is problematic in the context you're using and a different word would serve your point better.

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      1. Eric Lieber‏ @EricLieber Sep 3
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        My #LaborDay hope is that the elites stop lecturing us how to best live our lives, as the elites take advantage of and make fun of the non-elites daily.

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      1. Mike Runyan‏ @runyan50 Sep 3
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        $17.30 for your book? Are you trying to be a Winner?

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      2. Chris V.‏ @chrisvt Sep 3
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        Tolstoy said:...every man of the present day knows that all men have an equal right to life and the good things of life, and that one set of people are no better nor worse than another, that all are equal. Everyone knows this, beyond doubt; everyone feels it in his whole being.

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      3. Chris V.‏ @chrisvt Sep 3
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        he takes part in maintaining this distinction which his conscience condemns.

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      1. Lawrence Licklider‏ @WeightInnovate Sep 3
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        In Ishiguro’s #RemainsofTheDay Mr. Stevens happily devotes lifetime of service to privileged master who turns out to be pondscum #nazi Heroine housekeeper Miss Kenton chooses family ties and children. #winners taking what they can.

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