By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Temporarily embarrassed millionaires
Bonnie Stewart, the theoryblog, 2016/12/14
Understanding this mindset is key to understanding a lot of what happens in the mythologizing of learning, writes Bonnie Stewart: @socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” The idea is that people don't address underlying socio-economic causes of poverty because they don't see themselves as poor. More...