America loves a capitalist reckoning the way the NFL loves Colin Kaepernick. But it is having one anyway, writes Anand Giridharadas (
@anandwrites ), TIME editor at large and the author of 'Winners Take All.’ And if this year that reckoning seemed to reach new intensity, it was because the economic precariousness, stalled mobility, and gaping social divides that have for years fueled the backlash now had an improbable sidekick: plutocracy itself and the win-win ideology that has governed the last few decades. This year, America’s ultra-elites seemed to bend over backwards to lend support to the idea that maybe the system they superintend needs gut-renovating. As a political movement challenging their wealth and power bubbled up, the elite’s own misbehavior trickled down. And where the two met, ideas that once seemed unutterable started, to many, to sound like the future. Read more at the link in bio. Art by Delcan & Company for TIME, photographed by
@jamiechungstudio ; animation by
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