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The Bright History (and the Dark Side) of America's Super-Rich Philanthropists
How do you place wealth and equality next to one another and say, "These are the good things about American life and society"?
Reuters
The presidential election and last month's debate over raising taxes on the rich exposed a deep ambivalence in the U.S. over wealth and equality. How do we balance the American dream's offer of equality with its offer of financial success? And in a country with a tradition of larger-than-life philanthropists, recently re-highlighted by Bill Gates's and Warren Buffett's Giving Pledge campaign, but where social mobility is weak, how should we feel about the super-rich?http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/01/the-bright-history-and-the-dark-side-of-americas-super-rich-philanthropists/266894/
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