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Nicole Aschoff Quotes

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“Wealth isn’t earned fresh in each new generation by plucky go-getters. It is passed down, preserved, and expanded through generous tax laws and the assiduous transmission of social and cultural capital.”
— Nicole Aschoff, Oprah Winfrey: one of the world's best neoliberal capitalist thinkers
Tagged: wealth disparity, Rich People
“The way Oprah tells us to get through it all and realize our dreams is always to adapt ourselves to the changing world, not to change the world we live in. We demand little or nothing from the system, from the collective apparatus of powerful people and institutions. We only make demands of ourselves. We are the perfect, depoliticized, complacent neoliberal subjects.”
— Nicole Aschoff, Oprah Winfrey: one of the world's best neoliberal capitalist thinkers
Tagged: Neoliberalism, Oprah Winfrey
“Today, new working-class jobs are primarily low-wage service jobs, and the perks that once went along with middle-of-the-road white-collar jobs have disappeared. Flexible, project-oriented, contingent work has become the norm, enabling companies to ratchet up their requirements for all workers except those at the very top. Meanwhile, the costs of education, housing, childcare, and health care have skyrocketed, making it yet more difficult for individuals and households to get by, never mind prosper.”
— Nicole Aschoff, Oprah Winfrey: one of the world's best neoliberal capitalist thinkers
Tagged: Working Class, Neoliberalism
“The American dream is premised on the assumption that if you work hard, economic opportunity will present itself, and financial stability will follow, but the role of cultural and social capital in paving the road to wealth and fulfilment, or blocking it, may be just as important as economic capital. Some people are able to translate their skills, knowledge, and connections into economic opportunity and financial stability, and some are not—either because their skills, knowledge, and connections don’t seem to work as well, or they can’t acquire them in the first place because they’re too poor.”
— Nicole Aschoff, Oprah Winfrey: one of the world's best neoliberal capitalist thinkers
Tagged: The American Dream, Work, wealth disparity
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