I was raised, and conditioned, until at least post-law school, by stringently authoritarian/Republican parents. At the same time, my mother's family had taken from them 2 1/2 acres (acres) at the crest of the hill next to Twin Peaks in San Francisco. Joe Alioto and insider developers saw the beautiful set-up of the "redevelopment" law, w…
I was raised, and conditioned, until at least post-law school, by stringently authoritarian/Republican parents. At the same time, my mother's family had taken from them 2 1/2 acres (acres) at the crest of the hill next to Twin Peaks in San Francisco. Joe Alioto and insider developers saw the beautiful set-up of the "redevelopment" law, which was supposed to be for slum clearance, but, oh well.... I don't remember when the "revelation" came to me, that the rich and powerful actually were not better people than my grandfather: not harder-working, not more virtuous, and certainly not more honest. Sharing an anecdote of the reality of "trickle-up!" Book: "History of the Great American Fortunes," Gustavus Myers.
I was raised, and conditioned, until at least post-law school, by stringently authoritarian/Republican parents. At the same time, my mother's family had taken from them 2 1/2 acres (acres) at the crest of the hill next to Twin Peaks in San Francisco. Joe Alioto and insider developers saw the beautiful set-up of the "redevelopment" law, which was supposed to be for slum clearance, but, oh well.... I don't remember when the "revelation" came to me, that the rich and powerful actually were not better people than my grandfather: not harder-working, not more virtuous, and certainly not more honest. Sharing an anecdote of the reality of "trickle-up!" Book: "History of the Great American Fortunes," Gustavus Myers.