Robert Reich highlights significant personal experiences of bullying as a 4-foot-11 child, paralleling them with the larger issues of political and economic inequality. His recent book, "Coming Up Short," intertwines memoir with political analysis, aiming to elucidate the rise of Trump in the context of the last 50 years. Reich argues that societal inequalities in income and wealth lead to disparities across healthcare, housing, and education, stressing the need for individuals to understand these connections to better navigate their realities.
I wanted to explain the rise of Trump, and it was impossible to do it without looking at the last 50 years... I did have to take out a bunch of stuff that I wrote originally from my early years to focus it more on the central themes of brutality and bullying.
Inequality in income and wealth creates a host of other inequalities in healthcare, housing, education... take a 30,000-foot view and show people the relationship between one thing and another.
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