Who rules America?John McConaughy
Who rules America?
by John McConaughy · first published 1934
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This is not really a good summary of the question. For those interested in the question, I strongly suggest reading "Who Rules America" by G. William Domhoff http://www.amazon.com/Rules-America-Challenges-Corporate-Dom... The book in question also has a website: http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/
on “What Do Rich People Do Online?” ↗…Each person may rotate among all these areas, and most of them came up through the same prep schools and Ivy Leagues. These people have a lot of political influence. For details, see the famous book Who Rules America, written by a sociologist who did a census of the people in all these positions and analyzed the results. Five or six editions have come out by now as he's continued his research and updated the results.…
on “Write Gambling Software, Go to Prison” ↗…how to talk to one's children about money (our financial advisor gave this to us) - Read a lot about wealth and power in the United States, in particular sociologist and psychologist William Domhoff's "Who Rules America?" https://whorulesamerica.ucsc.edu/power/wealth.html (I stumbled on this by accident, but found it a fascinating read) Time is on your side here, so don't rush into anything. I was really lucky to have…
on “Ask HN: What did you do when you suddenly got rich?” ↗You should read the 7th (2013) edition of Who Rules America? by G. William Domhoff. It's a little pricy (it's a textbook) for a used copy on Amazon at the moment, but I watched the listings for a while and managed to pick up two copies for less than $31 a piece…
on “How Twitter Users Compare to the General Public” ↗…more wealth concentration. Some people may be willing to wait and see, while other people may have a specific opinion and may want to act politically on it. As G. William Domhoff wrote decades ago in "Who Rules America": https://whorulesamerica.ucsc.edu/change/science_freshstart.h... "Based on these findings, it seems likely that everyday people don't opt for social change in good part because they don't see any plausible…
on “NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy” ↗