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P16
America was a "civil oligarchy" in which a tiny and extremely wealthy slice of the population was able to use its vastly superior economic position to promote a brand of politics that served first and foremost itself. The oligarchs in America didn't rule directly, he argued, but instead used their fortunes to produce political results that favored their interests..."Wealth begets power, which begets more wealth." 
Over time, they suggest, extreme inequality would naturally stabilize, and a rising tide would lift all boats.
这是美帝版的先富带后富嘛....
What mattered most, free-market advocates argued, was not equality of results but rather equality of opportunity. As the conservative Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman wrote,"A society that puts equality - in the sense of equality of outcome - ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom... On the other hand, a society that puts freedom first will, as a happy by-product, end up with both greater freedom and greater equality.
这个洗脑包也是蛮厉害的....
P17
Paul Singer....and Elliott Management. Dubbed a vulture fund by critics, it was controversial for buying distressed debt in economically failing countries at a discount and then taking aggressive legal action to force the strapped nations, which had expected their loans to be forgiven, to instead pay him back at a profit.
Vulture Fund
P20
One shared characteristic of many of the donors in the Koch's network was private ownership of their business, placing them in a low-profile category that Fortune once dubbed "the invisible rich". Private ownership gave these magnates far more managerial latitude and limited public disclosures, shielding them from stockholder scrutiny. Many of the donors had nonetheless attracted unwanted legal scrutiny by the government.
P21
But when a former company pilot refused to take his aeronautic advice because it violated Federal Aviation Administration regulations, according to an interview with the pilot, Stewart (head of the Service Group of America) "rose out of his chair, and screamed, 'I can do any fucking thing I want.' "
笑死  霸道总裁果然是不分国籍的...
P28
Under Fred Koch's direction, the refinery was finished by 1935. With the capacity to process a thousand tons of crude oil a day, the third-largest refinery in the Third Reich was created by the collaboration between Davis and Koch. 
Fred Koch's willingness to work with the Soviets and the Nazis was a major factor in creating the Koch's family's early fortune...
看到这里有点不想读了..这样追根溯源的话 IBM和holocaust VW和纳粹 都是千丝万缕的联系 直接一句business is evil就得了呗...
P29 
She arrived with a stash of gruesome German children's books, including the Victorian classic Der Struwwelpeter, the featured sadistic consequences for misbehavior ranging from cutting off one child's thumbs to burning another one to death.
这么cult....想看
She described "chasing" her father around the house, trying to impress him with her interest in economics, and "staring down that dark well of nothing you will ever be good enough you privileged waste of flesh."
有钱人家的小孩也很心酸吼
...many reactionary Americans only knew the distorted translation of Hayek's work that had appeared in Reader's Digest. The conservative publication omitted Hayek's politically inconvient support for a minimum standard of living for the poor, environmental and workplace safety regulations, and price controls to prevent monopolies from taking undue profits. 
Reader's Digest是偏conservative的咩...mass media不管在哪里都能成为政治目的的手段也
Bill described an emotionally wrenching confrontation in the mid 1960s in which he, Charles, and David tried to force their elder brother Frederick, who they believed was gay, to relinquish his claim to a share of the family company, or else they threatened to expose his private life to his father. 
小黄书中的情节都是有真实根据的嘛(我的关注点真的越来越猎奇惹...
Charles Koch has often lauded the virtuous habits it takes to succeed, publishing a book on the subject in 2007 called The Science of Success. He has been less forthcoming about his inheritance. His brother, David, in contrast, has made less pretense of being self-made. He joked about his good fortune in a 2003 speech to alumni at Deerfield Academy.....He said, you might ask, how does David Koch happen to have the wealth to be so generous? Well, let me tell you a story. It all started when I was a little boy. One day, my father gave me an apple, I soon sold it for five dollars and bought two apples and sold them for ten. Then I bought four apples and sold them for twenty. Well, this went on day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, until my father died and left me three hundred million dollars. 
哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈
 A confidant claimed that Charles, who lived in Wichita, where their mother had died, hadn't give him early enough notice about the funeral arrangements for him to be able to attend. There had been an ice storm in Chicago, which complicated his travel arrangements. In the end, Fred was only able to arrive in Kansas in time to attend a reception after the service. "He was heartbroken", the confidant said. 
Fred and Bill, who were in the midst of suing their two brothers, suspected their mother, who had suffered from dementia, had been unduly influenced during her fading days into adding this provision to her will.
Fred小可怜...豪门恩怨果然都是有prototype的
Unlike his brothers, Frederick preferred to keep most of his donations anonymous, explaining to friends that his father had taught them to be modest and taking credit for charity was vulgar.
看人物小传真的有一种窥私的快感 性格决定命运 但谁又能说Fred不是幸运的一个呢
When he proposed to his future wife, liz, he reportedly did so over the phone, and she could hear him flipping through his busy date book in search for an open day for the wedding. In preparation, he required her to study free-market economics.
蛤哈哈哈这也太八卦小报了吧
They move in a world with people like them, or who want to be. They know no poor people at all. They are not the kind of people who feel obligated to get to know the help.
Coppins suggests that Charles harboured a hatred of the government so intense it could only be truely understood as an extension of his childhood conflicts with his father. 
He suggested that libertarians needed to mobilize youthful cadres by influencing academia in new ways. Traditional gifts to universities, he warned, didn't guarantee enough ideological control. Instead, he advocated funding private institutes within prestigious universities, while influence over hiring decisions and other forms of control could be exerted by donors while hiding the radicalism of their aims. 
春风化雨这一套倒是世界通用法...ideology从娃娃抓起
In the view of Kochs and other members of the libertarian party, government should be reduced to a skeleton function: the protection of individual and property rights. 
为什么仔细想想有点站Kochs????????
Like the Koch family, the Scaifes designed the trusts so that all net income had to be donated to nonprofit organizations for the next 20 years. After that, the principal of USD 50 million could pass to each of the Scaifes offspring free from inheritance tax. 
Side A:
It enabled a donor to set aside a lump sum for heirs free of inheritance tax or gift tax, but only after an interval of public good. To me, that's a good deal for both sides.
Side B:
One attractive solution was to donate to their own philanthropic foundations. By doing so, they could get the tax deductions and still keep control of how the charitable funds were spent....Private foundations have very few legal restrictions. They are required to dontate at least five percent of their asset value every year to public charities - referred to as "nonprofit organizations". In exchange, the donors are granted deductions, enabling them to reduce their income taxes dramatically. This arrangement enables the wealthy to simultaneously receive the generous tax subsidies and use their foundations to impact the society as they please. In addition, the process often confers an aura of generosity and public-spiritedness on the donors, acting as a salve against class resentment..
No amount of charity in spending such fortunes can compensate in any way for the misconduct in acquiring them --- Roosovelt
The puzzle in economics is why these foundations are not total scandals. 
B比较有道理吧...
P63
Scaife和第二任老婆也太小报了吧...
As Miller's biography details, the firm's huge government arms contracts in world war one and two dramatically improved its bottom line. Revenues quintupled during WW1 and exploded during WW2
果然打仗最容易发财惹
P73
Saltvile, a protypical company town. 这个镇好惨 查了一下还有muck dam collapse 小时候温度计摔碎了都要吓死 他们把水银拿在手上玩也是可怕
EPA Superfund: programms responsible for cleaning up some of the nation's most containminated lands and responding to environmental emergencies. 
P81
Olin Foudation & Law and Economics 是不是有点太阴谋论了啊....
P86
Karl Marx was a Jew.
哈哈哈哈这波攻击有点搞笑
P101
Called "the structure of social change", it approached the manufacture of political change like any other product. As Fink later described it in a talk, it laid out a three-phase takeover of American politics. The first phase required an "investment" in intellectuals whose ideas would serve as the "raw products". The second required an investment in think tanks that would turn these ideas into marketable policies. And the third phase required the subsidization of "citizen groups" that would, along with special interests, pressure elected officials to implement the policies. 
P102
That year, the Clintons were in the headlines for campaign finance scandels ranging from renting the Lincoln Bedroom to big donors to taking contributions from a dubious Democratic blunder who later pleaded guilty to rasing some of his moeny from China.
蛤???????
P113
Such group was in fact a new kind of weapon in the arsenal of several of America's biggest businesses - a fake populist movement manufacturerd by corporate sponsors....Its mission was to take these heavy ideas and translate them for mass Americans...."We need boots on the ground to sell ideas, not candidates."...."Ideas don't happen on their own, ideas need patrons."
American version of brainwashing 
P118
Santellie的煽动性好强也 不过真的有人会相信茶党是单纯的nonpartisan citizen movement咩
P129
奥观海真的好惨...
You cannot understand Obama's relationship with the right wing withour taking into account his race. It's something no one wants to talk about, but really you cannot deny the racial factor. They treated him in a way they never would have if he was white. The level of disrespect was just dialed up to eleven. 
P134
The key, according to a 1990 internal memo the tobacco industry was forced to disclose in a legal settlement, was to disguise the company's financial interests as a matter of great principle. Instead of pitching cigarattes sales, it would fake "smokers' rights" groups who would agitate against smoking restrictions as a fundemental matter of liberty.
the company need to create a movement that would build broad coalition around the issue - cluster of freedom, choice and privacy. 
P137
The tea party movement, in contrast, was estimated by the New York Times, to have won the support of 18 percent of the population at its zenith, but at its core, were some 330,000 activists who had signed up with six national organizational networks.