I think that Chuck Collins did a great job of starting the book by describing his own situation; understanding the author's perspective makes reading the book a lot easier. I particularly enjoyed the part where he mentions a major life decision he made at age 26. Collins decided to donate the entirety of his $500k trust fund, which would be worth over $7 million today. To have that big of a heart and so little greed at such a young age is truly admirable and definitely made me more interested in reading the rest of the book.
I also found Collins' suggestion that we must re-learn how to think about wealth to be very interesting. In particular, the part about 'makers vs. takers' got me thinking about the roles of certain groups of people in society. There are the people who create jobs for other people, and there are people who live off of government handouts. Collins makes the case that racist, white minds naturally consider the 'takers' to be dark-skinned people, which creates a huge problem in our society, and I definitely agree. While I think that society is progressing in the right direction, I definitely think that the older white generation of 'makers' are still very racist. Those people still take up a large portion of the top 1% of wealth, which puts minorities at an innate disadvantage. Collins does a wonderful job of tackling these issue in the first portion of the book.
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