Sublime

The only thing better than controlling money and power is to control the efforts to question the distribution of money and power.

It was no longer rich versus poor but rather people who claimed to belong to everywhere versus people stuck somewhere—echoing

an idea that gives hope while challenging nothing.

It helped people to see that things that happened in the quiet of personal life, and yet happened over and over again at the scale of the system, and happened because of forces that no individual was powerful enough to counteract alone—that these things had to be seen as and acted on politically, grandly, holistically, and, above all, in the places

choices the society has made about how to treat them. This, in Walker’s view, made it important to go beyond Carnegie’s idea of temporary inequality as the price of progress. Wealthy individuals needed to ask themselves, “Is the playing field on which I accumulated my wealth level and fair? Does the system privilege people like me in ways that comp