Anand Giridharadas, "Winners Take All"
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Anand Giridharadas discusses his book, "Winners Take All", at Politics and Prose on 9/11/18.
Giriharadas’s bracing call to action starts with a plea to the global elite to practice “followership” rather than leadership and simply stay out of the way of those trying to resolve the problems the wealthy have in many cases caused and are likely to perpetuate. Exposing philanthropical efforts to “change the world” as hypocritical schemes that often reframe social problems as market problems, Giridharadas, a former McKinsey analyst, an Aspen Institute fellow, and author of The True American, argues that we shouldn’t entrust the common good to unelected elites, but need to look to our public institutions. True change can’t rely on charity with strings attached but must come through democracy and people working together.
Giridharadas is in conversation with David Leonhardt of the New York Times.
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ANAND GIRIDHARADAS is the author of The True American and India Calling. He was a foreign correspondent and columnist for The New York Times from 2005 to 2016, and has also written for The Atlantic, The New Republic, and The New Yorker. He is an Aspen Institute fellow, an on-air political analyst for MSNBC, and a former McKinsey analyst. He teaches journalism at New York University and has spoken on the main stage of TED. His writing has been honored by the Society of Publishers in Asia, the Poynter Fellowship at Yale, and the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Award. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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I’m in tech and have had these feelings for a while but hadn’t heard as well defined. Giridharadas presents very critical ideas in a way that won’t easily be dismissed. Am starting to read the book and very impressed so far. Thanks!
walk out with google staff etc at next opportunity
Thanks for the honesty. The system succeeds beautifully in making value extraction look like value creation and most of humanity is not to the stage of ethical development where having thievery run the show seems bad enough to actually do anything about that.
I've been saying this for years. Instead of letting a few people accumulate massive wealth, thus giving them the power to give to the organizations they want, why don't we empower the masses by requiring a living wage, so they don't need to rely on charity? Thank you, Anand, for so eloquently shining a light on non-profit scams that keep power in the hands of a few.
7:35 is when he starts talking.
I felt bad for the bald older gentleman. I feel Anand was wrong to hurry him up and came across as a jerk by completely ignoring his question.
Jumps all over the elderly bald white guy in the teal shirt (interrupts him 9 seconds into his question, with all their interruptions total question time was 54 seconds, then doesn't even answer it), lets the lady immediately after give a lecture (no interruptions her question was 1 minute and 20 seconds). Just comes off as rude.
I noticed that too. It rubbed me the wrong way for some reason, as if Anand thinks he's better. Maybe I'm reading too much into it but man did that really rub me wrong.
Great advice
“Go Have weird experiences that really teach you about community and people”
I only have a question: What is the responsability of corporate media companies like the NYTimes, et al., in the unstoppable cheerleading done to the same businesses that you criticize about this kind of giving?
Thank you for posting this! The talk was really informative; Anand Giridharadas raises some really cogent revelations about the glaring contradictions in billionaire pseudo-philanthropy. There's a lot to digest, but it's a powerful framework to analyze late stage capitalism.
Im going to read this book
Love you Anand. Thank you for what you do/doing.
In most societies: Money = Smart = Success = Wisdom
Of course we know this is not always true but that's how it's been structured.
many societies such as traditional Indigenous People- tribal protection, compassion, equity, group care, feed all, live sustainable, think ahead 7 Generations....not competitive kill earth nest capitalism
Yes , after 8 years as president of the United States Barrack Obama decides its time to revitalize Democracy ~ 😉😅😄🤣😆
A very insightful book. I read it a couple of months ago and have thought about it many times since. Lots of authors have written about these problems but Giridharadas' take was somehow more poignant. One of the few books in this genre that I will read a second time.
Government that is corrupt DOES NOT speak in all our name and on top of it can enforce inequalities more effectively than private organization (see 56:22)..
I don’t get if Anand. You assert that we need justice and political reform and then pivot to politely suggesting we ought hope for billionaire counter-class-interest charity. You claim both that we must wage a political battle for democracy, forcing powerful institutions to be responsive to the demands of the mass of people, AND that we require elite charity. Doesn’t the latter hope show your belief in the efficacy and timelines of the former to be weak at best? In the end it sounds like you give up on political and class revolution and put your clerical gowns on, gently coaxing the Lords not to thrown the serfs off the land.
I would love the billionaires to have participated in this conversation to hear their perspective.
Very clear and impressive positions
I'm yet another white dude.
"Offering them certainty..." how about saying what it really is, those consultancy firms are offering young idealists a boat load of money, it is only human that those youngsters give in to greed, because they lack the life experience to know how morals are intimately linked to actions, and that this will corrupt their idealism and demotivate them and turn them cynical. The desire for money shows that those firms are not allaying uncertainty, the desire to hoard money is always playing on FUD, otherwise (if we had confidence in our income stream) we'd have no qualms at all about spending every last cent we get, investing in productivity rather than hoarding out of fear and uncertainty. It is a classic liberal naivete, to think, "if only I can build up enough wealth, then I'll be able to fix the world", with the clear subtext (hidden to the young & naive) "...so I'd better start exploiting those dumb workers who have no idea how to solve the worlds problems the way I do, because only I know what good I can do with the wealth I accumulate from their productive labour. It'll be a win-win."
I good companion read to "Winners Take All" would be Richard Reeve's "Dream Hoarders".
I love Anand. He is a person who cares enough to speak the truth, even when he knows it will make certain people - in particular powerful people - dislike him intensely. Some of us are disliked for our skin color, some for our old-ness, some for being old and female (wow! how dare you be old, female and poor, but still enjoy your life! You must be crazy!). I care, too, but I'm not a famous writer yet. I share so much with people of color and other oppressed people. My native language was Spanish, although I am of German/Danish descent. Then that language was forced out of me and I was made to speak English by a patriarch who was not aware of his own Imperialist hatred for the fact that his offspring chose Spanish over English. I did that because the people who showed me affection and treated me with love and respect were not my parents, but their servants. I know what Puerto Rico has endured as a country because I endured it as a person. The hurt and alteration of the character (whether its a colony or an individual). There are lots of people who talk about "positivity" but if we make positivity the main goal (like if we make capital gain the main goal) we end up with inequality on so many levels that it becomes the proverbial "TANGLED WEB". It will take so long to heal this. Also, the "woke" Pope says that women cannot have ownership of their own bodies!
This guy looks richer than everyone else in the room
Great video
very nice
Go back to Prof JK Galbraith. Institutionalism.
paolo freire! this ain't new kids.
His points are interesting but WHY THE F$%* does he do the valley girl up-talk and keep waving his hands. So annoying. And note to Americans - the world is not 'yours' to change.
Just so you know....this topic has no empathy from about 93% of the world.
In most countries, Anand after publishing such a book would be jailed, exiled, or executed
Nothing new, he is not particular original. The writing have been on the wall for ages. The problem is that people just dont want to face the true.They rather consume the well prepared BS on the media.
Anand knows.
yes america , please stop makeing people like Edison,Jobs,Zuckerberg and Bezos and make more people like Musk and Gates ,
none of the above needed