The Self-Made Myth

Preface

This book is born of nearly 15 years of organizing and working with business leaders and other high-income and high-wealth individuals as part of the Responsible Wealth project. Responsible Wealth is a network of 700 business leaders and high-wealth individuals who speak out in favor of progressive tax policies, corporate accountability, and fair wages. They do so because they have a deeper and more honest understanding of their own wealth and financial success, an understanding we call the built-together reality, which we lift up in this book.

Responsible Wealth is a project of United for a Fair Economy (UFE), a national organization working across class lines to raise awareness of the dangers of extreme inequality and to promote a more ...