Dear Gaida, all that you talk about sounds very pleasing to the ears; but pray how is it going to happen? You talk about enabling social mobility? Who is going to do that? My point is the celebrity-cult mongering that is going on is only increasing the gap between the haves and the have nots. Look at the amount of space being devoted to the trivial details of these rich celebrities in order to push up their market value further: is this really necessary?? If you have wealth fine go ahead and splurge, but please do not make a song and dance of it! Not in our country at least.
Having said this on the other hand I entirely agree with your point that we should create an enabling environment for the have nots. But who will create it? The celebrities?? Who are so buy flaunting their wealth? Will they accept and tolerate the poor masses who worship and revere some of their stupidites; come up in life and start questioning and critically evaluating their actions??
About the author, in this book he has not set upon himself the objective of offering suggestions on what should be done, not in this book anyway? May be if give him a suggestion his next book will contain a detailed road map on what needs to be done.
Finally your comparison with Russia is simply irrelevant. Russia was a very closed communist society; when it was suddenly opened up without any thought or plan. To compare what happen in Russia with what is happening here is like comparing apples and oranges.
