On letting go of potential and other myths of greatness.
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Rebekah Neumann’s Search For Enlightenment Fueled WeWork’s Collapse
Moe Tkacik takes a close look at the ways in which wealthy, new-agey Rebekah Paltrow Neumann — Gwyneth Paltrow’s cousin, Adam Neumann’s wife — helped fuel WeWork’s rise and spectacular fall.
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The Price of Dominionist Theology
After leaving fundamentalism, Eve Ettinger grapples with the loaded theological heritage of evangelical personal finance teachings.
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The Money Man to the Filthy Rich of the NBA
“With great abundance comes great discipline.”
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The Creeping Capitalist Takeover of Higher Education
Universities had the chance to make higher education accessible to more students by making the price of online degrees affordable. But they didn’t.
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What It’s Like to Grow Up With More Money Than You’ll Ever Spend
An interview with filmmaker, activist and heiress Abigail Disney, in which she speaks very frankly about how inheriting a fortune can compromise one’s moral compass and corrupt the soul.
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When Accepting Support Feels Like Becoming a Burden
When Ijeoma Oluo offers to buy her aging white mother a home, her mother worries she’s become a burden.
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The Color of Money
After her book, So You Want to Talk About Race, becomes a bestseller, Black author Ijeoma Oluo offers to build her white mother a home with her earnings and learns how race can affect the ways adult children care for their aging parents.
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Why Does It Feel Like Everyone Has More Money Than You?
Jen Doll considers the value of millennials owning whatever privilege and generational wealth they’ve benefitted from as a step toward acknowledging that the path to success isn’t a level playing field, and income inequality is a major obstacle for many.
Posted inBusiness, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
The Promise of Passive Income from Amazon: Too Good To Be True?
Two self-proclaimed “Amazon coaches” say they can train you in their business models so you can make thousands of dollars reselling cheap Chinese products on the world’s largest ecommerce store.