{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Friendly reminder that Horatio Alger, who wrote rags-to-riches American youth fiction in a capital-first Gilded Age like the one...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/694335032762023936/", "html": "<p>Friendly reminder that Horatio Alger, who wrote rags-to-riches American youth fiction in a capital-first Gilded Age like the one we seem to be entering, gets caricatured as pushing an &ldquo;up by your bootstraps&rdquo; self-made ethic but his actual work and &ldquo;luck and pluck&rdquo; philosophy explicitly emphasizes the necessity of elite patronage and largely advises self-improvement as a way to, with luck, impress bourgeois who are always in search of reliable quality men to run their enterprises</p>"}