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Equal Is Unfair
- America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality
- By: Don Watkins, Yaron Brook
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
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We've all heard that the American Dream is vanishing, and that the cause is rising income inequality. The rich are getting richer by rigging the system in their favor, leaving the rest of us to struggle just to keep our heads above water. To save the American Dream, we're told that we need to fight inequality through tax hikes, wealth redistribution schemes, and a far higher minimum wage.
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Such an important book
- By I nearly did on 14-04-17
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Equal Is Unfair
- America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 29-03-16
- Language: English
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Diversify
- By: June Sarpong
- Narrated by: June Sarpong
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
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How do we set aside race, colour, creed, class, age, religion, sexual orientation, physicality and all of our perceived differences? Is it truly possible to live without prejudice? And why should we want to? Offering six stories and six simple steps, Diversify explores the value we place on social packaging - how it shapes the way we see ourselves, determines who we become and limits the opportunities available to us.
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Best book on equality.
- By Colin on 25-07-20
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Diversify
- Narrated by: June Sarpong
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 19-10-17
- Language: English
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War on Virtue
- How the Ruling Class Is Killing the American Dream
- By: Bill Donohue
- Narrated by: Bill Donohue
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
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In this monumental book by one of the Church’s greatest contemporary defenders, Bill Donohue explains how the ruling class is systematically undermining the virtues that have built Western civilization and producing a “moral holocaust” that the traditional family cannot withstand.
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War on Virtue
- How the Ruling Class Is Killing the American Dream
- Narrated by: Bill Donohue
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 28-04-23
- Language: English
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Boom, Bust, Exodus
- The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities
- By: Chad Broughton
- Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
- Length: 15 hrs and 34 mins
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In 2002, the town of Galesburg, a slowly declining Rustbelt city of 33,000 in western Illinois, learned that it would soon lose its largest factory, a Maytag refrigerator plant that had anchored Galesburg's social and economic life for decades. Workers at the plant earned $15.14 an hour, had good insurance, and were assured a solid retirement. In 2004, the plant was relocated to Reynosa, Mexico, where workers sometimes spent 13-hour days assembling refrigerators for $1.10 an hour.
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Blue collar History.
- By simon cooke on 25-07-20
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Boom, Bust, Exodus
- The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities
- Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
- Length: 15 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 09-01-15
- Language: English
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The Good Country Equation
- How We Can Repair the World in One Generation
- By: Simon Anholt
- Narrated by: Simon Anholt
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
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Simon Anholt has spent decades helping countries, from Austria to Zambia, to improve their international standing. Using colorful descriptions of his experiences - dining with Vladimir Putin at his country home, taking a group of Felipe Calderon’s advisors on their first Mexico City subway ride, touring a beautiful new government hospital in Afghanistan that nobody would use because it was in Taliban-controlled territory - he tells how he began finding answers to that question.
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Aiming for Enlightened Self Interest
- By STEPHANIE SAVILLE on 25-09-20
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The Good Country Equation
- How We Can Repair the World in One Generation
- Narrated by: Simon Anholt
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 10-07-20
- Language: English
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Secrets of the Illuminati
- The Laws of Dark Psychology and Manipulation for Ascending Power (Machiavelli Mindsets for Executing the Laws of Power, Seduction, and Influence, Book 3)
- By: Corp Mach
- Narrated by: Don Keedik
- Length: 17 mins
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For millenniums, the elites have had access to knowledge that was out of bounds from the common folk. The knowledge was only known by those at the top of ruling hierarchy and was passed down to the next generation only. This knowledge enabled them to continue being at the top of hierarchy and rule those who are beneath them, establishing their stronghold over positions of power and influence. Ninety percent did not know anything about them and speculated about their lives and ideologies. They pondered and thought of conspiracy theories.
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Secrets of the Illuminati
- The Laws of Dark Psychology and Manipulation for Ascending Power (Machiavelli Mindsets for Executing the Laws of Power, Seduction, and Influence, Book 3)
- Narrated by: Don Keedik
- Series: Machiavelli Mindsets for Executing the Laws of Power, Seduction, and Influence
- Length: 17 mins
- Release date: 04-05-22
- Language: English
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Split: Class Divides Uncovered
- Outspoken by Pluto
- By: Ben Tippet
- Narrated by: Saul Jones
- Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
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How can we make sense of a world where we have both too many billionaires and too many foodbanks? We're supposed to go to university, forge a career, get wealthier, buy a house - but why is that so hard for most of us to achieve? Split makes sense of our world by looking at class society - delving into the deep-rooted economic inequalities that shape our lives. From the gig economy, rising debt, and the housing crisis that affects the majority of people, to the world of tax havens and unfair inheritance that affect the few...now is the time to fight back against the one percent.
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A good starting point
- By Anonymous User on 19-02-24
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Split: Class Divides Uncovered
- Outspoken by Pluto
- Narrated by: Saul Jones
- Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 21-07-20
- Language: English
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Rendezvous with Oblivion
- Reports from a Sinking Society
- By: Thomas Frank
- Narrated by: Thomas Frank
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
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What does a middle-class democracy look like when it comes apart? When, after 40 years of economic triumph, America’s winners persuade themselves that they owe nothing to the rest of the country? Rendezvous with Oblivion is a collection of interlocking essays examining how inequality has manifested itself in our cities, in our jobs, in the way we travel - and of course in our politics, where in 2016, millions of anxious ordinary people rallied to the presidential campaign of a billionaire who meant them no good.
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Very narrowly analyzed
- By Paul Murphy on 08-07-18
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Rendezvous with Oblivion
- Reports from a Sinking Society
- Narrated by: Thomas Frank
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 19-06-18
- Language: English
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Wem gehört Deutschland? [Who Owns Germany?]
- Die Bilanz der letzten 10 Jahre - Vollkommen überarbeitete Neuauflage des Spiegel-Bestsellers [The Balance Sheet of the Last 10 Years - Completely Revised New Edition]
- By: Jens Berger
- Narrated by: Markus Böker
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
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Der Traum einer Gesellschaft, in der jeder die gleichen Chancen hat und ohne materielle Sorgen sein Glück suchen kann, ist vorbei. Die Schere zwischen Arm und Reich klafft in Deutschland immer weiter auseinander. Die breite Mittelschicht, die einst unser Land gekennzeichnet und unsere Gesellschaft getragen hat, erodiert. Die Krisen der letzten Jahre haben diesen Trend verstärkt und die Politik will oder kann nicht gegensteuern.
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Wem gehört Deutschland? [Who Owns Germany?]
- Die Bilanz der letzten 10 Jahre - Vollkommen überarbeitete Neuauflage des Spiegel-Bestsellers [The Balance Sheet of the Last 10 Years - Completely Revised New Edition]
- Narrated by: Markus Böker
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 27-06-24
- Language: German
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Segregation by Design
- Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities
- By: Jessica Trounstine
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
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Segregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments generate race and class segregation. Starting in the early 20th century, cities have used their power of land use control to determine the location and availability of housing, amenities (such as parks), and negative land uses (such as garbage dumps). The result has been segregation - first within cities and more recently between them.
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Segregation by Design
- Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 09-02-21
- Language: English
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Start Again
- How We Can Fix Our Broken Politics
- By: Philip Collins
- Narrated by: Philip Collins
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
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In this time of tumult, when Britain is wrestling with the question of what sort of nation it wishes to be, its politics is stuck. Power is hoarded by a distant and unresponsive centre, and our two largest political parties have both been captured by those on their outer edges. Too many of us have been left politically homeless. In Start Again, Philip Collins, Times journalist and until recently a lifelong Labour voter, offers a road map to a different political destination.
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Start Again
- How We Can Fix Our Broken Politics
- Narrated by: Philip Collins
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 18-10-18
- Language: English
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The Innovation Delusion
- How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most
- By: Lee Vinsel, Andrew L. Russell
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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It’s hard to avoid innovation these days. Nearly every product gets marketed as being disruptive, whether it’s genuinely a new invention or just a new toothbrush. But in this manifesto on the state of American work, historians of technology Lee Vinsel and Andrew L. Russell argue that our way of thinking about and pursuing innovation has made us poorer, less safe, and — ironically — less innovative. Drawing on years of original research and reporting, The Innovation Delusion shows how the ideology of change for its own sake has proved a disaster.
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Repetitive and boring
- By Florian Diederichsen on 01-08-23
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The Innovation Delusion
- How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 08-09-20
- Language: English
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Indebted
- How Families Make College Work at Any Cost
- By: Caitlin Zaloom
- Narrated by: Kate Harper
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
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The struggle to pay for college is one of the defining features of middle-class life in America today. At kitchen tables all across the country, parents agonize over whether to burden their children with loans or to sacrifice their own financial security by taking out a second mortgage or draining their retirement savings. Indebted takes listeners into the homes of middle-class families throughout the nation to reveal the hidden consequences of student debt and the ways that financing college has transformed family life.
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Indebted
- How Families Make College Work at Any Cost
- Narrated by: Kate Harper
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 03-09-19
- Language: English
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Kids These Days
- Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
- By: Malcolm Harris
- Narrated by: Will Collyer
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
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Everyone knows "what's wrong with millennials". Glenn Beck says we've been ruined by "participation trophies". Simon Sinek says we have low self-esteem. An Australian millionaire says millennials could all afford homes if we'd just give up avocado toast. Thanks, millionaire. This millennial is here to prove them all wrong.
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Crucially insightful
- By Bjørn-Rune Hanssen on 05-07-18
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Kids These Days
- Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
- Narrated by: Will Collyer
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 07-11-17
- Language: English
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Dirty Work
- By: Eyal Press
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
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A compelling investigation into the phenomenon of dirty work - labour that society considers essential, but morally compromised. Guards who patrol the wards of America's most violent and abusive prisons. Undocumented immigrants who man the 'kill floors' of industrial slaughterhouses. Roustabouts who drill for oil on offshore rigs. And drone operators who kill people from thousands of miles away. These are the essential workers we prefer not to think about.
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Dirty Work
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 10-02-22
- Language: English
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The Power of Privilege
- How White People Can Challenge Racism
- By: June Sarpong
- Narrated by: June Sarpong
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
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In The Power of Privilege, June will empower those fortunate enough not to be ‘otherised’ by mainstream Western society to become effective allies against racism, both by understanding the roots of their privilege and the systemic societal inequities that perpetuates it.
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Straightforward
- By Gary on 07-10-20
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The Power of Privilege
- How White People Can Challenge Racism
- Narrated by: June Sarpong
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 01-10-20
- Language: English
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White Working Class
- Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America
- By: Joan C. Williams
- Narrated by: Liisa Ivary
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
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Around the world, populist movements are gaining traction among the white working class. Meanwhile, members of the professional elite - journalists, managers, and establishment politicians - are on the outside looking in, left to argue over the reasons. Williams explains that many people have conflated "working class" with "poor" - but the working class is, in fact, the elusive, purportedly disappearing middle class. They often resent the poor and the professionals alike. But they don't resent the truly rich.
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Enlightening
- By S. Sandhu on 14-04-19
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White Working Class
- Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America
- Narrated by: Liisa Ivary
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 27-06-17
- Language: English
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The Hidden History of Monopolies
- How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream
- By: Thom Hartmann
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
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American monopolies dominate, control, and consume most of the energy of our entire economic system; they function the same way as cancer does in a body, and like cancer, they weaken our systems while threatening to crash the entire body economics. American monopolies have also seized massive political power and use it to maintain their obscene profits and CEO salaries while crushing small competitors.
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The Hidden History of Monopolies
- How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Series: The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 06-08-20
- Language: English
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Guilty Admissions
- The Bribes, Favors, and Phonies behind the College Cheating Scandal
- By: Nicole LaPorte
- Narrated by: Betsy Foldes Meiman
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
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Guilty Admissions weaves together the story of an unscrupulous college counselor named Rick Singer, and how he preyed on the desperation of some of the country's wealthiest families living in a world defined by fierce competition, who function under constant pressure to get into the "right" schools, starting with preschool; nonstop fundraising and donation demands in the form of multi-million-dollar galas and private parties; and a community of deeply insecure parents who will do anything to get their kids into name-brand colleges in order to maintain their own A-list status.
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Guilty Admissions
- The Bribes, Favors, and Phonies behind the College Cheating Scandal
- Narrated by: Betsy Foldes Meiman
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 23-02-21
- Language: English
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A elite do atraso
- Da escravidão a Bolsonaro [From Slavery to Bolsonaro]
- By: Jessé Souza
- Narrated by: Jorge Rebello
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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A elite do atraso se tornou um clássico contemporâneo da sociologia brasileira, um livro fundamental de Jessé Souza. Por meio de uma linguagem fluente, irônica e ousada, Jessé apresenta uma nova visão sobre as causas da desigualdade que marca nosso país e reescreve a história da nossa sociedade. No âmago da interpretação de Jessé não está a corrupção política. Para ele, a questão a partir da qual se deve explicar a história passada e atual do Brasil - e de suas classes, portanto - não é outra senão a escravidão.
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Diferenciado
- By Anonymous User on 27-07-23
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A elite do atraso
- Da escravidão a Bolsonaro [From Slavery to Bolsonaro]
- Narrated by: Jorge Rebello
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 03-03-22
- Language: Portuguese
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