“Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World"
aka "ARE ELITES REALLY MAKING THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE?"
via World Affairs Council. /npr but this gets the video too.
A thorough analysis of the world's worst distribution of total income + accumulated Wealth, the institutions impoverished by that, the fact of the relative uselessness of the new breed of "philanthropists": in the face of the huge loss to all occupants of (the dis-US specifically) via this Kleptocracy-today.
Break up monopolies like Goo--gle and Alpha--bet, etc.? (after having crafted an actual Plan in the jelloware).
aka "Don't ask what you can do for your country; ask what you've done to your country"
or? ...Were there enough people left, capable of thinking to some purpose beyond gaming-the-Any!-system (while capable of eschewing more-More-MORE? as the vulture-capitalism substitute for having any real-Life.) ... ...
He's got some decent suggestions.
via World Affairs Council. /npr but this gets the video too.
A thorough analysis of the world's worst distribution of total income + accumulated Wealth, the institutions impoverished by that, the fact of the relative uselessness of the new breed of "philanthropists": in the face of the huge loss to all occupants of (the dis-US specifically) via this Kleptocracy-today.
‘Winners Take All’: How Philanthropists Hoard Progress
Today’s elites are some of the more socially concerned individuals in history. But do their philanthropic missions really make a difference, or do they perpetuate the system of inequality they’ve profited from? Anand Giridharadas, author of the new book “Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World,” talks with Markos Kounalakis, visiting fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, about how philanthropists are preserving the very structures at the root of societal inequity.
Break up monopolies like Goo--gle and Alpha--bet, etc.? (after having crafted an actual Plan in the jelloware).
aka "Don't ask what you can do for your country; ask what you've done to your country"
or? ...Were there enough people left, capable of thinking to some purpose beyond gaming-the-Any!-system (while capable of eschewing more-More-MORE? as the vulture-capitalism substitute for having any real-Life.) ... ...
He's got some decent suggestions.