Rather, they favor the use of the private sector and its charitable spoils, the market way of looking at things, and the bypassing of government. The initiatives mostly aren't democratic, nor do they reflect collective problem-solving or universal solutions. I have a ton of quotes collected from this book, but I'm just going to put these two right here: someone's going to make money from it).Ĥ) It will hand most of the blame responsibility to the people on the bottom who are being "rescued." So the solutions they will propose meet a couple of standards:ġ) It will include no challenge to the fundamentals of the current system.Ģ) The elites will be in charge (because their eliteness is proof of their fitness to run the show).ģ) It will harness entrepreneurial energy (i.e. They are not part of the problem, and they are hurt that you would even suggest that was true they are simply the just winners in a meritocratic system. The elite assumption is that the system that put them on top, the game that they are the winners of, is fair and just and unrigged and not in need of being changed in any major ways. What the Ten Donut Crowd won't say is, "Let's take a look at the system that divided the donuts up this way in the first place." Or "Let's use our democratic traditions and institutions to settle this fairly." Call the media to catch this heartwarming story." Or, of course, "If you had a better education, you would have more donuts." I'm going to start a foundation that will teach you how to better stretch a donut." Or "I'll offer grants to buy donut knives to cut the donuts into neater pieces (and my company will make the knives)." Or "I'll cut these up for you, because I have a much better understanding of donuts than you do." Or "I'm going to fund some programs to teach you how to better control your hunger, because if you had that kind of personal strength, you wouldn't have to care so much about the donuts." Or, "I'm going to generously give one of these guys part of a donut.
But here's what they do- they say, "Boy, two donuts aren't many for the two of you. The rich person has ten donuts on their plate, and as the other two contemplate the remaining donuts, the rich person says to the working class person, "You'd better watch out- I think that poor person wants to take your donut."īut nowadays we have all sorts of elites that make noise about making the world a better place. You know that meme about a rich person, a poor person, and a working class person sitting down to some food- we'll say a dozen donuts.
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