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Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas
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Please try again later. I share another concern well described by Anand, namely, the extremely serious abdication of public responsibility for basic human needs. In large part, this is because the very rich, the gatekeepers they employ, and their political allies have intentionally worked to limit the viability of our public sector since the Reagan presidency. In fact, as Anand also notes, this has been done in various ways since the early part of the 20th century when the first large foundations were created by Rockefeller and Carnegie.
I believe Anand would agree with my view that the rich use philanthropy and the entire nonprofit sector as a diversion from a strong public sector which, in these times, would be at least some form of American social democracy. If I could afford it, I would buy copies of Winners Take All for anyone who wants to understand the role of charity and philanthropy in maintaining existing power relations by limiting the power and effectiveness of a viable, democratic public sector.
We must address the dominance of unaccountable, self-serving elites with democratic, public alternatives as Anand so brilliantly, courageously, and elegantly elucidates in Winners Take All. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. I picked up this book thinking it was about me and my friends.
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
Despite the subtitle, Winners Take All is not about the entrepreneurs and investors who are involved in socially responsible businesses whose mission is to change the world. The sole exception is the author's brief excursion in the epilogue into the B Corporation movement, in which I've been involved since the beginning. And he appears not to understand what B Corps are about. As he notes at the outset, "When the fruits of change have fallen on the United States in recent decades, the very fortunate have basketed almost all of them.
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It consists of enlightened businesspeople and their collaborators in the worlds of charity, academia, media government, and think tanks. The values they all promote are those of the marketplace; its proponents always talk about opportunities to solve problems, never about those who are responsible for creating the problems in the first place.
The author distinguishes between public intellectuals good and thought leaders bad. In his view, the former are primarily academics free of commercial influences. The latter have fallen for MarketWorld values, hook, line, and sinker. And that strikes me as simplistic. It would be naive to imply that major corporations haven't made inroads into academia.
The eight billionaires who own half the world's wealth are an easy target Author Anand Giridharadas aims his most powerful broadsides at easy targets such as the multimillionaire and billionaire leaders of the tech and financial industries. Can anyone seriously argue that Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Goldman Sachs are addressing the economic inequality that Giridharadas identifies as the central issue? No matter what their leaders say, they're clearly part of the problem, not the solution.
These four men are among the eight billionaires whose collective net worth is equal to all the wealth of half of the world's population.
Yes, just eight billionaires. How could anyone suggest that these people would even consider lobbying the federal government to adopt policies that would lessen economic inequality in America? Yet Giridharadas complains that they don't. Winners Take All is based on the premise that these would-be do-gooders call the shots in the American economy and dominate the political debate.
The Elite Charade of Changing the World
The author implies that economic inequality would quickly shrink if these folks were to work for genuine social change. However, this is far from the truth. Most wealthy people in the United States are conservative Republicans who do not pretend to be change agents. And they exert far greater power and influence in American society than the Davos and Aspen set.
In today's political discourse, the Heritage Foundation and its peers among Right-Wing think tanks and the institutions of the Christian Right wield far more power in setting government policy at both the federal and state levels than the "enlightened elite" Giridharadas writes about. Bill Clinton's central role in making the problem immeasurably worse In the author's view, it's not just clueless businessmen or Republicans who are at fault. Bill Clinton also comes in for justifiable criticism. His "Third Way" between left and right effectively reversed the Democratic Party's commitment to helping the less fortunate in our society.
On this point, Giridharadas is right on the money. Just for example, deregulation, including the repeal of Glass-Steagall, was among the root causes of the Great Recession that struck in Don't forget that millions lost their homes, and millions more lost their jobs, in that calamitous economic downturn. Barack Obama was by far the best of them, but he also: Who will lead society toward viable solutions? Here's the crux of the matter, as Giridharadas sees it: If they don't actively work to raise estate and income taxes, drive private money out of politics, provide universal free healthcare, and work to elect people committed to serving the majority of America's people, they're part of the problem.
Nothing else they do can be a solution. And to that I say amen. Winners Take All is a self-help book for the uber wealthy. While his focus is on the uber wealthy, Giridharadas tenaciously exposes a universal human deficit: What continuously came up for me as I read Winners Take All is the need people have to be seen as good, but not being able to make the personal sacrifices i.
This is, by far, one of the most important books published in the 21st century.
There are several ways to define it, including market mindset or really materialism where money elevates the monied by virtue of their market acumen to rule. See all 79 reviews. Amazon Giveaway allows you to run promotional giveaways in order to create buzz, reward your audience, and attract new followers and customers. Learn more about Amazon Giveaway. The Elite Charade of Changing the World.