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recent bookmarks from jerrykingThe United States is no longer the world’s friendliest country to migrants2022-11-08T03:17:06+00:00
https://notes.pinboard.in/u:jerryking/2414a521c8b9d86e5408
jerrykingCanada chancellor_of_the_exchequer competitiveness_of_nations competitive_advantage David_Cameron diversity Fareed_Zakaria GOP immigrants immigration immigration_policies Indian-Americans indices migrants multiracialism Rishi_Sunak social_conservatism social_integration social_mobility Tories U.S. United_Kingdom visible_minoritieshttps://notes.pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:dcf7b1cf7139/Opinion | The Meritocracy Is Ripping America Apart2019-09-15T17:23:38+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/12/opinion/markovits-meritocracy.html
jerrykingBig_Law caste_systems Colleges_&_Universities David_Brooks elitism exclusivity hard_work human_capital inequality law_firms leadership medicine op-ed parenting social_classes social_exclusion social_fabric social_impact social_inclusion society technology values Wall_Street winner-take-all political_correctness Accomplisher_Class social_mobility meritocratic social_capital social_hierarchies college-educated highly-skilledhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:ddf8ca266be1/Stop fighting over scarce educational opportunities2019-03-27T14:26:00+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/17724708-4fa6-11e9-9c76-bf4a0ce37d49
jerrykingAlexandria_Ocasio-Cortez children education scarcity college-educated cost_of_inaction elitism income_inequality Varsity_Blues social_mobility meritocratichttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:606073d552c1/Cause or effect? The link between gentrification and violent crime2018-07-14T02:43:10+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/ace1dbe0-7ece-11e8-8e67-1e1a0846c475
jerryking>unhelpful response<<. Fear raises money for private security firms, not community programmes; it improves funding to free schools, not failing academies; it promotes only the most brutal, careless forms of policing. In communities that are undergoing gentrification, fear further divides the haves and the have-nots: decreasing the kinds of relationships [i.e. = "social fabric"] that might aid >>social mobility<< and better connect disadvantaged youth with the city they live in.
And what gets forgotten, says Allen, is that fear goes both ways. “A lot of the young people that get caught up in youth violence are caught up because they’re vulnerable and they’re frightened,”
]]>accountability Bill_Bratton carding causality CompStat criminality criminal_justice_system data deprivations disaffection fear gentrification homicides killings London New_York_City organized_crime policing property_markets United_Kingdom violent_crime NYPD budget_cuts redevelopments young_people social_fabric social_mobility unhelpfulness crime-fightinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:98cad533033e/Opinion | The American Renaissance Is Already Happening2018-05-15T12:19:24+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/14/opinion/the-american-renaissance-is-already-happening.html
jerrykingsocial_mobility David_Brooks libraries civics James_Fallows renaissance community_engagement partnershipshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:7a908173f6ff/Opinion | How to Level the College Playing Field2018-04-08T23:38:02+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/07/opinion/sunday/harold-levy-college.html
jerrykingColleges_&_Universities accessibility legacies admissions op-ed unfair_advantages social_mobility meritocratic alumni hereditary nepotism education self-perpetuation super_ZIPs opportunity_gaps college-educated upper-income compounded low-income elitism selectivity roadmaps follow-up_questions household_incomes cultural_capital gaming_the_system loopholeshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:33b3298d2533/Can we ever knock down the walls of the wealthy ghetto?2017-07-16T18:07:51+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/can-we-ever-knock-down-the-walls-of-the-wealthy-ghetto/article35691925/?ord=1
jerrykinghigh_net_worth privilege Doug_Saunders social_mobility social_classes private_schools inheritance_tax elitism inequality geographic_sorting college-educated super_ZIPs self-perpetuation upper-income cumulative Laurentian_Consensus Canada Canadians compounded closed_loopshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:6e9f4cdca231/How We Are Ruining America2017-07-11T13:34:50+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/opinion/how-we-are-ruining-america.html
jerryking>rig<< the system.
The most important is residential zoning restrictions. Well-educated people tend to live in places like Portland, New York and San Francisco that have housing and construction rules that keep the poor and less educated away from places with good schools and good job opportunities.....second structural barrier is the college admissions game. Educated parents live in neighborhoods with the best teachers, they top off their local public school budgets and they benefit from legacy admissions rules, from admissions criteria that reward kids who grow up with lots of enriching travel and from unpaid internships that lead to jobs.....the structural barriers emphasized are less important than the informal social barriers that segregate the lower 80 percent (e.g. being aware of cultural signifiers around, say, gourmet food)
.......American upper-middle-class culture (where the opportunities are) is now laced with cultural signifiers that are completely illegible unless you happen to have grown up in this class (i.e. excelling at being socially graceful). They play on the normal human fear of humiliation and exclusion. Their chief message is, “You are not welcome here.”]]>David_Brooks social_mobility Colleges_&_Universities inequality college-educated super_ZIPs self-perpetuation values opportunity_gaps upper-income social_exclusion books structural_barriers admissions elitism social_classes zoning restrictions social_barriers cultural_signifiers privilege unfair_advantages ruination rituals socially_graceful cultural_capital gaming_the_system geographic_sorting internships unpaid rigginghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:2e4da95794cb/What Does It Take to Climb Up the Ladder? - The New York Times2017-03-23T11:51:45+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/23/opinion/what-does-it-take-to-climb-up-the-ladder.html?ref=opinion
jerrykingmovingonup social_mobility perseverance industriousness grit resilience curiosity hard_work self-control forward_looking self-discipline impulse_control delayed_gratification character_traits up-and-comers self-regulation personal_drivehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:5549e5cf89ab/Why I’m Moving Home2017-03-17T15:05:52+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/opinion/why-im-moving-home.html?src=me&_r=0
jerrykingsorting segregation neighbourhoods polarization geographic_mobility brain_drain super_ZIPs cultural_detachment Rust_Belt midwest Red_states whites political_partisanship political_polarization J.D._Vance industrial_Midwest Appalachia cities engaged_citizenry talent Charles_Murray civics social_mobility self-perpetuation values opportunity_gaps college-educated geographic_sorting compartmentalization working-class change_agents individual_initiative talent_flight regional_inequality public-spiritedness highly-skilledhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:ae37569ce27d/Review: In ‘Hillbilly Elegy,’ a Tough Love Analysis of the Poor Who Back Trump - The New York Times2016-08-11T04:06:10+00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/11/books/review-in-hillbilly-elegy-a-compassionate-analysis-of-the-poor-who-love-trump.html
jerrykingbooks book_reviews Yale Appalachia Rust_Belt poverty family_breakdown hopelessness social_mobility resentments grievances values habits USMC helplessness conflict_resolution whites deindustrialization industrial_Midwest underclass tough_love working-classhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:7d5e3f4942a9/J.D. Vance and the Anger of the White Working Class - WSJ2016-07-30T04:57:38+00:00
http://www.wsj.com/articles/j-d-vance-and-the-anger-of-the-white-working-class-1469813974
jerryking>learned helplessness<<” and didn’t think their decisions mattered, he says, he learned the opposite in the Marines: “My decisions did matter and I did have some control over my own life.”.....“In the family life that I grew up in, the way you handled conflict resolution with your spouse or your partner was by screaming and yelling, and if things got really bad, maybe throwing stuff or hitting and punching them,” he says. He only later realized that rather than fighting to win, he should try to solve problems in a relationship. .....“Concretely, I want pastors and church leaders to think about how to build community churches [i.e. = "community-building"], to keep people engaged, and to worry less about politics and more about how the people in their communities are doing,” he says. “I want parents to fight and scream less, and to recognize how destructive chaos [i.e.= "domestic instability"] is to their children’s future.”[i.e. = "orderly lives"]
He thinks that school leaders could help by being more cognizant of what’s going on in students’ home lives. But most of all he wants people to hold themselves responsible for their own conduct and choices.[i.e. = "personal responsibility"] “Those of us who weren’t given every advantage can make better choices, and those choices do have the power to affect our lives,” he says.]]>books Appalachia Rust_Belt poverty hopelessness social_mobility resentments grievances values habits USMC helplessness conflict_resolution whites deindustrialization industrial_Midwest family_breakdown underclass J.D._Vance faith_leaders individual_agency individual_autonomy working-class orderly_lives Yale community-building personal_responsibility domestic_instability learned_helplessnesshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:a4c13297c859/Trump nation: An insider’s tour - The Globe and Mail2016-07-20T15:21:02+00:00
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/trump-nation-an-insiders-tour/article30966204/
jerrykingbooks Margaret_Wente Appalachia Rust_Belt poverty Donald_Trump resentments grievances values habits social_mobility hopelessness helplessness industrial_Midwest whites family_breakdown underclass J.D._Vance working-class powerlessnesshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:fa7fbd951ca8/Episode 04 :: Revisionist History Podcast2016-07-14T11:48:40+00:00
http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/04-carlos-doesnt-remember
jerrykingMalcolm_Gladwell social_mobility capitalization podcasts human_potentialhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:6d36feb66200/Unstuck: How can the world’s vanishing middle class escape an economic trap? - The Globe and Mail2016-02-20T22:11:15+00:00
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/unstuck-how-can-the-worlds-vanishing-middle-class-escape-an-economictrap/article28816064/
jerrykingDoug_Saunders middle_class downward_mobility economic_stagnation social_mobility social_classes the_Great_Decoupling the_gig_economy unstuckhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:0873cb552f23/Racial Wealth Gap Persists Despite Degree, Study Says - The New York Times2015-08-18T01:46:48+00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/17/business/racial-wealth-gap-persists-despite-degree-study-says.html?ref=business
jerrykingracial_disparities wealth_management African-Americans downward_mobility social_mobility social_classes personal_finance financial_literacy wealth_creation generational_wealth self-perpetuation economic_inequity family_wealthhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:afb9d46bc02a/America’s elite: An hereditary meritocracy2015-01-26T01:19:19+00:00
http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21640316-children-rich-and-powerful-are-increasingly-well-suited-earning-wealth-and-power?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/pe/ahereditarymeritocracy
jerrykingColleges_&_Universities elitism hereditary education values parenting public_education legacies admissions alumni endowments SAT social_mobility self-perpetuation super_ZIPs opportunity_gaps college-educated upper-income compounded cultural_transmission Matthew_effect assortative_mating U.S._Senate dynasties family meritocratic nepotism money_&_power chutzpahhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:88d424cec954/How Black Middle-Class Kids Become Poor Adults2015-01-19T19:57:09+00:00
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/01/how-black-middle-class-kids-become-black-lower-class-adults/384613/
jerrykingAfrican-Americans middle_class children downward_mobility social_mobility social_classes racial_disparities unemployment generational_wealth geographic_segregation single_parents backslidinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:f1c695e01634/Crossing Class Lines - NYTimes.com2014-10-05T07:07:52+00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/05/opinion/sunday/crossing-financial-lanes.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
jerrykingsocial_classes social_mobilityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:f54a82a19ccd/Your ancestry may be your destiny2014-03-23T10:45:41+00:00
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/is-your-ancestry-your-destiny/article17598552/#dashboard/follows/
jerrykingsocial_mobility Margaret_Wente ancestry books social_classes genes economic_history historianshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:ea10bc4a6edc/The Self-Destruction of the 1 Percent -2013-09-11T23:33:10+00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/opinion/sunday/the-self-destruction-of-the-1-percent.html?src=me&ref=general&pagewanted=all
jerrykingChrystia_Freeland Venice social_mobility elitism city-states history winner-take-all The_One_Percent income_inequality income_distribution moguls capitalism self-interest social_classes depopulation cronyism crony_capitalism new_entrants lobbying business_interests self-destructive oligarchs pro-business pro-market entrenched_interests locked_in Renaissance economic_clouthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:4f5cf98ff62b/The middle class is good politics but a curious crusade2013-08-11T22:36:37+00:00
http://m.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/good-politics-but-a-curious-crusade/article13576567/?service=mobile
jerrykingKonrad_Yakabuski Chrystia_Freeland middle_class social_mobility Toronto expatriates inequality books income_inequality capitalization technological_change globalization obsolescencehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:6c6df02131b8/The Problem With Too Many Millionaires - NYTimes.com2013-06-22T10:39:36+00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/21/us/21iht-letter21.html?smid=tw-share
jerrykinghigh_net_worth Chrystia_Freeland winner-take-all social_mobility hollowing_out middle_class The_One_Percent productivity special_sauce compounded elitism paradoxes self-perpetuation income_inequality Matthew_effect virtuous_cycles breakthroughshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:014faa3e89cd/Fear of falling out of middle class stalks Americans2013-04-27T02:49:31+00:00
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/fear-of-falling-out-of-middle-class-stalks-americans/article11552575/
jerrykingmiddle_class Chrystia_Freeland downward_mobility social_mobilityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:6b7e644189ab/The Great Migration2013-01-26T05:08:16+00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/25/opinion/brooks-the-great-migration.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
jerryking>meritocracy<< and government. On the one side, there is the meritocracy, which widens >>inequality<<. On the other side, there is President Obama’s team of progressives, who are trying to mitigate inequality. The big question is: Which side is winning? First, there is our system of higher education, which is like a giant vacuum cleaner that sucks up some of the smartest people from across the country and concentrates them in a few privileged places....via good universities....and a culture that emphasizes mobility — a multicultural cosmopolitanism that encourages you to go anywhere on your quest for self-fulfillment......the system works. In the dorms, classrooms, summer internships and early jobs they learn how to behave the way successful people do in the highly educated hubs [i.e. = picking up "cultural capital"]. There’s no >>economic reason<< to return home, and maybe it’s not even socially possible anymore......The highly educated >>cluster<< around a few small >>nodes<< (e.g. Washington, Boston, San Jose, Raleigh-Durham and San Francisco. In those places, nearly 50 percent of the residents have college degrees.). ...Enrico Moretti writes in “The New Geography of Jobs,” the magnet places have positive ecologies that multiply innovation, creativity and wealth. The abandoned places have negative ecologies and fall further behind........This >>sorting<< is >>self-reinforcing<<, and it seems to grow more unforgiving every year. ...... half of the jobs in university political science programs went to graduates of the top 11 schools. That is to say, if you have a Ph.D. from Harvard, Stanford, Princeton and so on, your odds of getting a job are very good. If you earned your degree from one of the other 100 degree-granting universities, your odds are not. These other 100 schools don’t even want to hire the sort of graduates they themselves produce. They want the elite credential........Members of the Obama administration have worked reasonably hard to mitigate the inequality that their own rise has produced. They’ve worked reasonably hard to redistribute money from the rich people in the magnet areas to the poorer people in the flight areas..........The first problem with the effort is that it’s like shooting a water gun into a waterfall. The Obama measures, earned after a great deal of political pain, simply aren’t significant enough to counteract the underlying trends.
The second problem is the focus on income redistribution. Recently, there’s been far more talk about tax increases than any other subject. But the >>income disparities<< [i.e. = "income inequality"] are a downstream effect of the human capital [i.e. = "spectrum between the highly-skilled and blue collar manual labour" which manifests in disparate "personal payoffs"/"productivity payoffs" and disparate levels of "personal productivity"] and geographic disparities. Pumping a few dollars into San Joaquin, Calif., where 2.9% of the residents have bachelor’s degrees and 20.6 % have high school degrees, may ease suffering, but it won’t alter the dynamic.
The final problem is that, in an effort to reduce the economic concentration of power, the administration is concentrating political power in Washington. If the problem is that **talent is fleeing blighted localities**, it’s hard to see how you make that better if decision-making and resources are concentrated faraway in the nation’s capital.
]]>David_Brooks Colleges_&_Universities elitism Ivy_League internal_migration books multiplier_effect geographic_sorting clusters college-educated credentials geographic_concentration geographic_inequality human_capital meritocratic nodes Obama PhDs political_power self-fulfillment smart_people social_mobility sorting talent talent_flight Washington_D.C. hyper-concentrations self-perpetuation credentialism cultural_capital progressivism regional_inequality self-reinforcing income_inequality productivity_payoffs income_disparities economic_reasonshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:83dc58a3e1df/In Palm Beach, The Old Money Isn't Having a Ball - WSJ.com2012-08-30T16:58:22+00:00
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB111655171289738817,00.html
jerrykinghigh_net_worth Robert_Frank entrepreneurship social_mobility capitalization The_One_Percent old_moneyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:7113f23ee350/Two Classes in America, Divided by ‘I Do’ - NYTimes.com2012-07-15T23:04:59+00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/us/two-classes-in-america-divided-by-i-do.html?_r=1&hp&pagewanted=all
jerrykingmarriage parenting family family_breakdown income income_distribution social_classes college-educated social_mobility self-perpetuation compounded blue-collar inequality Matthew_effect assortative_matinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:e365c7095f99/Marriage, mobility and race: Marriage, mobility and race | The Economist2010-05-22T16:52:35+00:00
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2010/05/marriage_mobility_and_race
jerrykingmarriage race_relations social_mobility African-Americanshttps://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:0b6b4b07ceb0/The Wealth Explosion: The New Yacht Club2010-05-08T16:25:07+00:00
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1200489641&sid=1&Fmt=3&clientId=11263&RQT=309&VName=PQD
jerryking>hypercompetition<< that lifted them to the top of the heap in the first place.
]]>high_net_worth rules_of_the_game trends demographic_changes economics affluence 19th_century entrepreneur guidelines investors moguls property_development regulators speculators winner-take-all WASPs upward_mobility entrenched_interests high-achieving antidotes books competitiveness social_fluidity superstars elitism social_mobility top_performers hypercompetitivehttps://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:5e46cc092246/