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Millionaires of Misery: How Nonprofit CEOs Monetize the Suffering They Can’t Solve

There exists a particular breed of well-moisturized predator stalking the ruins of the American dream. Dressed in tailored linen, adorned with foundation-sponsored lanyards and sincerity-shaped lapel pins, they glide from keynote to keynote, murmuring words like “equity,” “impact,” and “community stakeholder engagement” with the precision of a Silicon Valley chatbot trained exclusively on TED Talks and NPR. These are the CEOs of compassion, the millionaires of misery—modern clergy of the nonprofit industrial complex, who have transformed human suffering into a sustainable business model.

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Paths Beyond the Circus: Toward Healing the Earth and Untangling Power’s Web

If we have learned anything from the tangled spectacle of billionaires hobnobbing with predators and politicians shoveling dirt on forests, it is that no piecemeal reform can suffice when the entire recipe is rotten. The dazzling theater of power demands not incremental touch-ups but a profound reimagining of the systems that govern our lives—economic, political, and social alike.