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The Shame Machine - Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation (Hardcover)
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The Shame Machine - Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation (Hardcover)
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A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Shame is being weaponized by governments
and corporations to attack the most vulnerable. It's time to fight
back Shame is a powerful and sometimes useful tool. When we
publicly shame corrupt politicians, abusive celebrities, or
predatory corporations, we reinforce values of fairness and
justice. But as best-selling author Cathy O'Neil argues in this
revelatory book, shaming has taken a new and dangerous turn. It is
increasingly being weaponized -- used as a way to shift
responsibility for social problems from institutions to
individuals. Shaming children for not being able to afford school
lunches or adults for not being able to find work lets us off the
hook as a society. After all, why pay higher taxes to fund
programmes for people who are fundamentally unworthy? O'Neil
explores the machinery behind all this shame, showing how
governments, corporations and the healthcare system capitalize on
it. There are damning stories of rehab clinics, reentry programs,
drug and diet companies, and social media platforms -- all of which
profit from 'punching down' on the vulnerable. Woven throughout The
Shame Machine is the story of O'Neil's own struggle with body image
and her recent weight-loss surgery, which awakened her to the
systematic shaming of fat people seeking medical care. With clarity
and nuance, O'Neil dissects the relationship between shame and
power. Whom does the system serve? How do current incentive
structures perpetuate the shaming cycle? And, most important, how
can we all fight back?
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