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Great perspective from people who are successful in business today. Really kills the "we need the job creators to save us" rhetoric from the Right. I think this is a must read for anyone who thinks "government is the problem".
The Self-Made Myth exposes the false claim that business success is the result of heroic individual effort with little or no outside help. Brian Miller and Mike Lapham bust the myth and present profiles of business leaders who recognize the public investments and supports that made their success possible—including Warren Buffett, Ben Cohen of Ben and Jerry’s, New Belgium Brewing CEO Kim Jordan, and others. From the blurb.
I want to give this a 3.. but slightly better... I think it isn't because of the intent...or the factsbut because of the tone/read/fact combination
The self-made man is a myth. No one becomes rich and successful on their own. They’re either born into a wealthy family or they, like the many successful entrepreneurs profiled in this book, benefited from taxpayer-funded government programs. Whether it was the public schools they or their staff attended, the roads their business uses to transport their products, the government funded university research that lead them to their lucrative invention, or the courts that protect their intellectual p...
I'm not sure why I got so bogged down in the middle of this, but they finished strong. It's nice to know that some rich entrepreneur-types acknowledge that they didn't make it alone and that they should give back rather than pulling the ladder up behind them.
A Brilliant Contribution to the Public Debate About Politics and the EconomyLast week the Republican majority in the House of Representatives passed a budget that slashes taxes for corporations and high-income taxpayers while drastically cutting federal assistance for food and other safety-net programs. It’s hard to imagine a more dramatic expression of contemporary “conservative” ideology. It’s straight out of Atlas Shrugged, based on the tragically misguided notion that brilliant, driven indiv...
I really like United for a Fair Economy and Brian Miller is a friend. However, this book is way too classically liberal, pro-capitalist, for it to feel very hopeful or be very inspiring. Still I really appreciate the way it made visible and explicit the many subsidies that the rich and business owners receive from society. Also, because Tracie is trying to start a small business right now, it was interesting to hear from people who were "successful" at starting businesses about all of the commun...
Well writtenThis book is very concise very well elocuted. I haven't come across a better piece of work that makes Donald trump look like the pompous jackals he is.
This book absolutely destroys the idea that rich people are primarily responsible for their own wealth. There are no "self-made" people. Reality, and people, so the authors argue, are "built together" and responsible for each other. But this book does not stop there. A full blown defense of the relational self and a communitarian politics, this is a must read for anyone who wants to make the case for a progressive politics and see what such policies would actually look like.
