![]() ![]() Who is not in on the game? Auto workers, for example. Powerful bankers, for their own benefit and for that of their posterity. Underwrites the risks the financial gurus take a seat at the casino Īnd it’s heads they win, tails we lose. Was made obvious during the 2008 financial crisis. Game is more sophisticated than a two-fisted money grab, but its essence In the 1950s, the bankers were content to keep only $1 out of $40. Dentists’ offices, for example, have a glass ceiling that limits whatĭental hygienists can do without supervision, keeping their bosses inĪmericans now turn over $1 of every $12 in GDP to the financial sector Through their influence on the number of slots at medical schools, theĪvailability of residencies, the licensing of foreign-trained doctors,Īnd the role of nurse practitioners, physicians’ organizations canĮffectively limit the competition their own members face-and that isĮxactly what they do. Other cost-intensive sports at which private schools and elite public The wealthy, whose children pursue lacrosse, squash, fencing, and the ![]() Recruiting, on balance and contrary to the popular wisdom, also favors To choose parents who attended the university in question. Legacy-admissions policies reward those applicants with the foresight As Daniel Golden points out in The Price of Admission, The wealthy can also draw on a variety of affirmative-action programs designed just for them. States-alone in the developed world-increased in the first decade and a Low-educated, middle-aged whites, the death rate in the United Those who have a family income greater than $100,000. In individuals who have a family income of less than $35,000 than in Obesity, diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease, and liver disease are all two to three times more common The polite term for the process is assortative mating. the process of speciation begins with a love story-or, if you prefer, sexual selection. In America, the game is half over once you’ve selected your parents. Contrary to popular myth, economic mobility in the land of opportunity is not high, and it’s going down. ![]() We have left the 90 percent in the dust-and we’ve been quietly tossingĭown roadblocks behind us to make sure that they never catch up. Keep insisting that we’re “middle class.”Īs of 2016, it took $1.2 million in net worth to make it into the 9.9 percent. In fact, we’re so self-effacing, we deny our own existence. We’re a well-behaved, flannel-suited crowd of lawyers, doctors,ĭentists, mid-level investment bankers, M.B.A.s with opaque job titles,Īnd assorted other professionals-the kind of people you might invite toĭinner. Like those flamboyant political manipulators from the 0.1 percent. So what kind of characters are we, the 9.9 percent? We are mostly not An article in The Atlantic notes the even bigger problem of "the 9.9%" - which may include you and me. The wealth of the "1%" (and the 0.1%) has been discussed to death. Of Minnesota professor and expert in palliative care. “When did we medicalize death?” said Remke, a University ![]() Roughly 7,000 Death Cafes have been sponsored globally, according to organizers.ĭeath is natural, she said, and should be demystified with publicĬonversations. Hospices give patients what they want, which is not pinching pennies. Hospice officials hate to talk about that. The main reason, say hospice experts, is that doctors have stopped fighting or ignoring hospices.Īs medical costs soar, hospice care saves a soaring amount of money. In their homes, as well as those living in hospice centers. Minnesota’s hospice population spiked to 19,253 in 2016, the latest yearįor which statistics are available. Natural alternative to their expensive and often uncomfortable “Death Cafes” in public places are proliferating,Īs forums for topics that were once taboo.ĭoctors, the gatekeepers of hospice entries, now accept hospice as a Promotions - books, plays and radio programs to review the various The remarkable rise of hospice care has been powered by grassroots Hospice patients have tripled since 2000, and today they account for more than half of all deaths in Minnesota. ![]()
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