EXCERPT:
GIRIDHARADAS: “Part of what I wanted to tell Americans with this book, and this book is really focused on America although some of these phenomena are global. This is not about we’re not who I want us to be. We’re not who we say we are. We’re not who we tell the world we are. This has happened under the cover of an age of disruption, an age of tech is going to make everybody their own entrepreneur, just download an app and become an entrepreneur. Instead what we’ve recreated is a new upstairs, downstairs, Downtown Abbey society here on American soil, a new caste society and system. The secret to getting ahead is being born ahead. The secret to going to a great university is having your parents have gone to such a university. And so many of the supposedly liberating tools of the age have ended up promoting a consolidation of power that actually exceeds consolidation of wealth and power 30, 40 years ago.”