{"id":3161,"date":"2015-04-06T07:37:42","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T14:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/?p=3161"},"modified":"2015-04-06T07:38:58","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T14:38:58","slug":"how-the-1-percent-always-wins-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2015\/04\/how-the-1-percent-always-wins-interview.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;How the 1 Percent Always Wins&#8221;: Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;TzbKntNFyZcSQHgIrdjr9IhXNfnnrZ7q&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>A timely and engaging new book by the\u00a0labor historian Steve Fraser, <em>The Age of Acquiescence<\/em>, contrasts the way Americans responded to the first Gilded Age &#8212; with protests, class rhetoric, even violence &#8212; to the situation today, where movements like Occupy come and go and populist energy is directed not against capital but against&#8230; poor people.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile we adore heroic CEOs, scorn sensible regulation that keeps businesses from abusing workers and the environment, and aim to become &#8220;free agents&#8221; with no ties at all.<\/p>\n<p>I spoke to the author the other day for a Salon Q+A. <a title=\"Q+A w Steve Fraser\" href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2015\/04\/04\/how_the_1_percent_always_wins_we_live_in_a_faux_democracy_which_is_why_everyones_so_cynical_and_nobody_votes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a> it is.<\/p>\n<p>We talked about Adam Smith, the truth and myth behind the American Dream, the worship of wealth, and our inability to remember a world before full-bore capitalism.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2Q.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3162\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2Q-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"2Q==\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2Q-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2Q.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;TzbKntNFyZcSQHgIrdjr9IhXNfnnrZ7q&#8221;] A timely and engaging new book by the\u00a0labor historian Steve Fraser, The Age of Acquiescence, contrasts the way Americans responded to the first Gilded Age &#8212; with protests, class rhetoric, even violence &#8212; to the situation today, where movements like Occupy come and go and populist energy is directed not against capital but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35,654,96,631],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-books","7":"category-capitalism","8":"category-history","9":"category-plutocracy","10":"entry","11":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3164,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161\/revisions\/3164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}