@@1flash3571 A lot of people do work harder and wouldn't mind paying more taxes if that money was used responsibly, but they're not paid what they're worth and their taxes are being stolen by the rich and the powerful.
@@Lewa500Let me ask you a question. Who pays more in taxes, a wealthy millionaire, or someone like you? Let say a millionaire who is just 1 person pays let say 190k in tax in 2018, vs you who pays like 7k for that same year. You are 1 person, and he is 1 person. In what ways is the millionaire paying less than you? Regardless of the percentage of the tax, he is still paying more than you. Am I correct? You who pays only 7k, and him paying 190k is no comparison. So what if he is making more money than you or me? His tax money is paying for more services, more equipment for the gov't employee than what you contribute. The billionaire and the millionaire are abiding by the tax laws in this country just like you and me. If you think is unfair, then start your own business. Maybe you will make more money, and help contribute to the tax revenue.
@@ronnyron007 re·form /rəˈfôrm/Submit verb 3rd person present: reforms 1. make changes in (something, typically a social, political, or economic institution or practice) in order to improve it. "an opportunity to reform and restructure an antiquated schooling model" synonyms: improve, make better, better, ameliorate, refine, mend, rectify, correct, rehabilitate; More
@@austin5944 - it's sad that a lot of those enlightened quotes from MLK are as relevant today as they were 50 years ago - seems like a lot of things haven't changed for the better
What an interesting man, thank you. Finally, someone who does not sugarcoat it or pull his punches - it reminds us, by contrast, of how public discourse has decayed recently.
And yet, things change so fast these days that since you posted this comment, a certain massive global event and a certain a**hole president and a murderous dictator have reinvigorated public discourse on elite philanthropy, wealth inequality and and many other burning issues, including the state of liberal democracy in general. I have lately been impressed with the human race!
So well said. This is why we need Bernie in 2020. Moderate dems like Biden, Beto, Kamala, Booker, etc will not work. We need real structural change not pragmatic half measures.
@herooja Anand is good at describing the problems. But try fixing some of your eye-ball time on The Michael Brooks Show and The Majority Report. Better critiques of oligarchy than Giridharadas. You cannot fix structural injustices through taxes and pay rises only, the wealthy will just get their business owner stooges to raise prices and funnel capital overseas where wages and taxes are low and exploitation is rampant. I did however like the way he described how to make education democratic and that tech should be used to catch the real fraudsters not just to help the poor live with austerity and pay their bills.
@@ronnyron007 but he is right about the decrepitude of centralized economies (see the research by Kornai and others on resource constrained economies). For sure we should not love capitalism. What we need is workplace democracy, worker coops, a finance sector that is nationalised and "boring" (no speculation allowed). Government funding can be used for private entrepreneurs -- this worked for science & tech in New Zealand for 50 years, our DSIR create an estimated net 10 billion in wealth, purely government funded. Then neoliberals privatized it in the 1990's and it has never recovered that productivity.
@@ronnyron007 ...and I doubt Giridharadas means he wants the inequities of capitalism, he likely simply means keeping private ownership of production, which is not really saying much, it's compatible with 100% worker owned cooperatives (a la Richard Wolff's recommendations for a social democracy). Workers should own the means of production for most industries, not capitalists, not government either - aside from commons goods & services like electricity, water, housing, schools, healthcare, internet service, police, courts, etc.
Thank you, this was excellent, and coordinates with my favorite book by Thomas Frank, Listen Liberal which I encourage all to read. Anand takes it a step further and I never thought about it in this particular way.
Sara Elkassabany, thats what happens when they charge the individual to do changes that society should do. Henry Giroux talks about this concept of “individualizing the social”.
"Charity is a cold grey lifeless thing. A rich man should pay his taxes gladly not dole out money at a whim" - Clement Attlee British Prime Minister 1945-1951
Glad you had him on, glad you let him talk, but a better interview would have been to push him on more questions, like why would he want the private industry to continue making phones that cost a fortune, including lives in component attainment, and which demands we upgrade and throw away every year. Have him on again and have a longer discussion, PLEASE!
Julie Rowan-Zoch i don’t think that’s what he meant by that. I’m sure that he’s against those phones costing so much. But you do know that nobody’s forcing you to upgrade your phone right? I’ve had my phone for 5 years (iPhone 6 plus) & I plan to keep it for as long as it works (i paid it off in the first 2 years & have owned it ever since). I still think they’re too expensive but you don’t have to keep getting a new phone every year unless you want to. I could even take my phone to another cell phone service provider & pay $10 for a new SIM card.
It's simple I buy cost effective phones and with good service. I try to keep my phone 2 or 3 years or until glitches start to occur. I never had any major issues with my cost effective phones. Try it Julie.
Planned obsolescence. France did a right to repair bill to alleviate that problem (probably in the face of our growing climate crisis and resource shortage no doubt).
mhkpt This is exactly why Conservatives are Conservatives and why Conservatives hate Progressives. They hate change and have a death grip on the status quo.
Wow! That is a laser beam illuminating the key issue of the 21st century; I must read his book to hear more of his analysis and the examples that underpin his arguments.
I'll always remember a dinner party in Spain at the age of 21, hosted by a psychiatrist who invited friends who were socialists and euro-communists whose parties were banned under Franco (this was right after Franco's death). There were several enlightening comments delivered to my young American mind by the man on my left, and one was his answer to my telling him, "Oh no, we have all sorts of charities." He said, "If you had a fairer economic system, you wouldn't need them.". I had never thought of it..
right...if only welfare was giving the poor just a little more money.....everything would be great....Oh wait, why do we need welfare in the first place....never mind.....end capitalism.
This man is a fantastic communicator, the only choice is Bernie, I am not American,, but feel so invested in this election, we all should be, around the world, who are affected by these policies, especially climate change.
He doesn't actually want much to change....he just wants a few reforms .... hence him specifically stating he wants private capitalists to produce stuff.
I was still just a kid when I realized that all these TV commercials where insurance companies and banks tell us they care about you, your family and it's goals as much as you do, are pure BS.
Always nice to see someone a few weeks ago and think, “wow this guy speaks really well, hope he continues doing media” and later see him creeping into more and more recently published RUclips videos and having written a new book!
Great segment. Anand is killing it on his book tour (i suggest searching his name on youtube for more of his talks/Q&As/etc.). His profile is clearly on the rise right now as an expert on the topic of social/economic injustice.
Childhood Development consultant, Joseph Chilton Pearce said to the Scandinavian countries - if you financially support women during the first year of a child's life you will see your prisons empty out in 20 years. They took his advice and paid for new mothers to be at home with their child that first year and he WAS CORRECT, that is exactly what happened 20 years later. I had the great fortune to hear him speak live, it was standing room only and it was the best lecture I've ever heard. Pure genius.
I’ve got to get this book! I totally agree with Anand. Those who have benefitted from rigging various systems in this so called democracy need to be made a little uncomfortable. That means they need to be taxed more and their dollars should go to making public schools systems equal across this land for starters.
Anand said something to the effect that putting the people who have the most to lose in charge of change, you're not going to get the change necessary to fix major social problems. I agree wholeheartedly.
This is so very important. Back to the critical thinking skills. We have to question. We have to be skeptical. We're as propagandized as any other totalitarian country.
Love this guy! Just so real!!! Approaching the problem from another angle, perhaps more philosophical - I think the essence of the issue here is that these people (billionaires)are emotionally dependent on projecting a false self image to appear superior to the rest of humanity, because they're terrified of the actual truth. That in fact they are just like everyone else. Fragile, flawed and vulnerable. The only way they can maintain this illusion is by buffering themselves with enourmous and obscene amounts of money. This serves a double function - one to deceive themselves and another is to deceive everyone else. They are in fact very sad individuals who's narcissism impedes their capacity to empathize with their fellow human beings or any other beings for that matter. They are simultaneously protected from the truth by their enourmous wealth and their capacity for self deception. They see the rest of us as an abstraction that they can't quite relate to, therefore empathize with. In order to feel a brotherhood with other's you need to share something with each other and they simply don't know how to share. Their world is so removed from the everyday problems that we experience that they simply can't understand us. I think they are nothing more than a symptom of our times and a general reflection of how we have lost our collective way. The byproduct of this situation is manifold and it includes environmental devastation - Climate Change among other's. Make the change in your mind, in your heart and then in your world. Where ever that may be. Anand has his role to play in this necessary transformation that we need to make and we have ours, each and every one of us. No matter how small it may seem. Start with your heart!
I agree, Tulsi is the best candidate by policy and integrity. She has been repeatedly slandered because she has the guts to oppose war and call out the insanity of current military actions.
Absolutely brilliant! This feels like something huge will come from this. I have long questioned The true philanthropy of Gates' Zucherberg, Clinton Foundations. The wealthy consider philanthropy attending galas for fundraising. It's ever so clean. High couture, French cuisine, write the check, deduct...I am so thrilled to hear this and we need to vitalize this.
2 Labor Laws that, when changed, will affect the lives of Workers: ~ the end of the legal use of Mandatory Overtime as protected in the 1938 Fair(?) Labor Standards Act ~ Overtime pay after 8 hours/day...not 40 hours/week
That's true, everybody gets it wrong. Since I am from India, I do know the correct pronunciation. Break up the last name into 3 parts and say it, Giri-Dar-Das. That's how you say it. :-)
In my country we get 6 months of maternity leave. It can be split between the parents. The father has 2 week of compulsory leave and an additional 2 weeks of optional full pay leave. I had 2 months of paid leave when my child was born.
max man, privatisation of all things w/a CEO in charge. It is a massive gap b/t owner profits and worker’s share of GDP. It is legal bribery and corrupt, unregulated lobbying. It is private for profit prisons. It is unregulated-monopoly capitalism. For starters.
@@maxman-357 Google says neoliberalism is "a form of liberalism tending to favor free-market capitalism," even their "charities" are actually about making someone money. They're like conservatives who are trying to feel good about turning everything into a transaction.
max man, ha! Man, you’re an easy mark for people who want to exploit. Knowledge is power, and guys like Anand, thomas frank, chris hedges and the like write books for people to empower them with knowledge. Where was God in 2008 when the people who crashed the economy got bonuses while “God fearing people” lost their homes, what small wealth they had plus their retirement? Jesus’s one “violent” act was when he threw out the merchants from the church. By comparison, 2008 should have been fire and brinstone and... Nothing happened... just more injustice. Keep you head in the sand Mark. Thats what got us decades of neoliberal politics, and now this philanthropic aristocracy and now this “meritless” meritocracy. In the words of Cornel West: “You have some work to do my friend.”
I went to my public library website and saw that there were 50 copies of Anand's book and 310 holds!! A good sign. But I guess I won't be reading this book until September......
Now that's talking truth to power. Raise up. Wake up. Speak up. If they can't hear you or choose not to hear us. Gather a group of friend and yell louder together. It's time to act instead of internalizing things and listening to commentary. But rather let's do something about it. Now!
Anand. Good analysis and good book. Pick a candidate. How about Bernie Sanders. Lets make change happen. Support a true progressive candidate, not a regular corporate Democrat. Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren. Beto is dull. Hopefully being at Time magazine won't prevent you from doing the right thing.
@@IronskullGM Bernie's socialism would be center/right on the political spectrum in most European countries (social democrat). What few US citizens seem to realize is that we are now one of the most conservative countries in the world.
@@53toddk a social democrat would not declare themselves a democratic socialist. I am pretty sure China is the world's most conservative ultra-nationalist nation that puts Muslims and Africans in Concentration camps to re-educate them to conserve the Sino culture. Also the theological despotic regimes of the Middle east and Iran are much more conservative. We have already fought 2 world wars because Europeans have thought their way was the only way to rule the world, you would think people would have learned not to listen to them anymore. The US is the least racist and most culturally diverse nation on earth that people of all religions live in relative peace with each other. Can you think of anywhere else that can say the same?
@@IronskullGM You are right... I should have confined my comparison of US conservatism to other "western" countries. Canada is not as diverse as the USA, but they have been doing pretty well in terms of limited/low public expressions of racism. I think Germany (if you exclude the former East Germany, where most of their neo-Nazis reside) has done surprisingly well in living down their historical shame.
Why give their money away through charity? Why not just pay their employees a livable wage and give them good benefits? Both are tax write-offs. Is it notoriety and the stroking of their egos. But why is it considered better to give away stuff than to pay the people who work hard to make your fortunes for you? What kind of weird psychology is that?
Hey Anand....the iPhone wouldn't exist, if not for massive public funding of research & development. The same is true for MANY other products whose development was funded by American tax payers. Corporations profit from OUR investments, then pay no taxes.
Well said, forget your "philanthropy" and pay your fair share of taxes, wages, benefits, etc.
Philanthropy == tax write-off.
Truth!!
Why don't you work harder so you can pay more taxes?
@@1flash3571 A lot of people do work harder and wouldn't mind paying more taxes if that money was used responsibly, but they're not paid what they're worth and their taxes are being stolen by the rich and the powerful.
@@Lewa500Let me ask you a question. Who pays more in taxes, a wealthy millionaire, or someone like you? Let say a millionaire who is just 1 person pays let say 190k in tax in 2018, vs you who pays like 7k for that same year. You are 1 person, and he is 1 person. In what ways is the millionaire paying less than you? Regardless of the percentage of the tax, he is still paying more than you. Am I correct? You who pays only 7k, and him paying 190k is no comparison. So what if he is making more money than you or me? His tax money is paying for more services, more equipment for the gov't employee than what you contribute. The billionaire and the millionaire are abiding by the tax laws in this country just like you and me. If you think is unfair, then start your own business. Maybe you will make more money, and help contribute to the tax revenue.
Anand is an important voice for these times! ✊🏻
WIENERS take all!
What an understatement 👍
The deal is I WANT TO DONATE TO MY OWN CHARITY CHOICE. Pay taxes and support employees.
Hillary was another leaner in. The most egregious example
Very needed , smart and to the point speaker
"The people who have the most to lose from change cannot be in charge of reforming the status quo, but all of us have allowed that to happen."
Facts
He doesn't want change. Even though he highlights the problems....he wants reforms.....
@@ronnyron007 re·form
/rəˈfôrm/Submit
verb
3rd person present: reforms
1.
make changes in (something, typically a social, political, or economic institution or practice) in order to improve it.
"an opportunity to reform and restructure an antiquated schooling model"
synonyms: improve, make better, better, ameliorate, refine, mend, rectify, correct, rehabilitate; More
@@Photographyalex Good bot
"When you have foxes eating hens, Kumbaya is a recipe for slaughter"
Speak!!!
truth
David Apeji well said
That's a line that should go down in history. It explains our times and weak politicians so well.
Love that because I'm pissed.
Anand, you make my day. Best regards.
Ishrat Firdousi you say everything I feel but can’t express ,thanks for the voice
"we have socialism for the rich, and rugged individualism for the poor" - Martin luther King jr
Easily my favorite king quote
@@austin5944 - it's sad that a lot of those enlightened quotes from MLK are as relevant today as they were 50 years ago - seems like a lot of things haven't changed for the better
@@mistercut8331 they really haven't
What an interesting man, thank you. Finally, someone who does not sugarcoat it or pull his punches - it reminds us, by contrast, of how public discourse has decayed recently.
And yet, things change so fast these days that since you posted this comment, a certain massive global event and a certain a**hole president and a murderous dictator have reinvigorated public discourse on elite philanthropy, wealth inequality and
and many other burning issues, including the state of liberal democracy in general. I have lately been impressed with the human race!
Man this guy is so on point! Made my day! All the power to you. Mr Giridharadas you need to be in the next administration, full stop!
Damn, Anand spilling the truth in this interview.
Not only is Anand smart but he is funny which is a great combo. Keep up the good work.
Thank you for exposing that Lean In crap.
So in other words... vote, donate, and volunteer for Bernie!!!!
And Justice Democrats.
Basically....hey, let me complain about the problems created by capitalism....but at the end of the day....lets make a few reforms.
Jonathon Plmquist - YES Bernie - case by case with JD
Sandy What JD candidates have you disagreed with?
So well said. This is why we need Bernie in 2020. Moderate dems like Biden, Beto, Kamala, Booker, etc will not work. We need real structural change not pragmatic half measures.
exactly
Bernie Tulsi 20 20
Comrade Anand is the best critic of oligarchy this year so far, I am gonna buy his book
He is not a comrade.. he specifically stated that he wants capitalism to remain ....
@herooja Anand is good at describing the problems. But try fixing some of your eye-ball time on The Michael Brooks Show and The Majority Report. Better critiques of oligarchy than Giridharadas. You cannot fix structural injustices through taxes and pay rises only, the wealthy will just get their business owner stooges to raise prices and funnel capital overseas where wages and taxes are low and exploitation is rampant. I did however like the way he described how to make education democratic and that tech should be used to catch the real fraudsters not just to help the poor live with austerity and pay their bills.
@@ronnyron007 but he is right about the decrepitude of centralized economies (see the research by Kornai and others on resource constrained economies). For sure we should not love capitalism. What we need is workplace democracy, worker coops, a finance sector that is nationalised and "boring" (no speculation allowed). Government funding can be used for private entrepreneurs -- this worked for science & tech in New Zealand for 50 years, our DSIR create an estimated net 10 billion in wealth, purely government funded. Then neoliberals privatized it in the 1990's and it has never recovered that productivity.
@@ronnyron007 ...and I doubt Giridharadas means he wants the inequities of capitalism, he likely simply means keeping private ownership of production, which is not really saying much, it's compatible with 100% worker owned cooperatives (a la Richard Wolff's recommendations for a social democracy). Workers should own the means of production for most industries, not capitalists, not government either - aside from commons goods & services like electricity, water, housing, schools, healthcare, internet service, police, courts, etc.
@@Achrononmaster Agreed. His diagnosis is pretty much on target but his solutions are weak.
This is spot on, extremely well stated and something that has needed to be said for a long time. I look forward to reading the book. Awesome segment.
Thank you, this was excellent, and coordinates with my favorite book by Thomas Frank, Listen Liberal which I encourage all to read. Anand takes it a step further and I never thought about it in this particular way.
cozy comfy Thomas Frank is freakin awesome!
I am off to get his book right now.
LOL LEAN IN 😂😂😂 i tried that and my manager basically told me to shut up
Sara Elkassabany, thats what happens when they charge the individual to do changes that society should do.
Henry Giroux talks about this concept of “individualizing the social”.
I find if people have insightful input then others will listen, unless of course they're assholes but I don't think that's most people
@@8beef4u Your name is Jack, I'm guessing you're not a woman...
Correct.
Modern day philanthropy and charity, is neither philanthropic nor charitable.
He should open Bernie Sanders Rally with a good dose of reality.
That would be such extra power bust for Bernie.
"We can't let the people who have the most to lose from change be in charge of it" (paraphrasing)
So glad to hear truth to power spoken here.
Jan Wag absolutely
Thanks Democracy Now, thanks Amy Goodman, thanks Anand Giridharadas!
"Charity is a cold grey lifeless thing. A rich man should pay his taxes gladly not dole out money at a whim" - Clement Attlee British Prime Minister 1945-1951
Bernie is the only logical choice.
Not really.... more like iliterate choice.... Read some Marx already.
@@ronnyron007 I've never read Marx, thanks for playing though
Ronny Ron studied Marx intently in grad school. Having understood that Bernie is the only logical change
@@andreware6492 not too good at learn are ya?.
@@RetroBerner ..not playing steve, just point out how much of an idiot you are.
Glad you had him on, glad you let him talk, but a better interview would have been to push him on more questions, like why would he want the private industry to continue making phones that cost a fortune, including lives in component attainment, and which demands we upgrade and throw away every year. Have him on again and have a longer discussion, PLEASE!
Julie Rowan-Zoch i don’t think that’s what he meant by that. I’m sure that he’s against those phones costing so much. But you do know that nobody’s forcing you to upgrade your phone right? I’ve had my phone for 5 years (iPhone 6 plus) & I plan to keep it for as long as it works (i paid it off in the first 2 years & have owned it ever since). I still think they’re too expensive but you don’t have to keep getting a new phone every year unless you want to. I could even take my phone to another cell phone service provider & pay $10 for a new SIM card.
He is not really against capitalism....he is a liberal at heart....meaning a few reforms is good enough for him.
Also, not realizing that the capitalist business making the phones only pay the actual workers pennies to build them.
It's simple I buy cost effective phones and with good service. I try to keep my phone 2 or 3 years or until glitches start to occur. I never had any major issues with my cost effective phones. Try it Julie.
Planned obsolescence. France did a right to repair bill to alleviate that problem (probably in the face of our growing climate crisis and resource shortage no doubt).
"The people who have the most to lose from change can't be placed in charge of reforming the status quo" - TRUTH!
mhkpt This is exactly why Conservatives are Conservatives and why Conservatives hate Progressives. They hate change and have a death grip on the status quo.
Wow! That is a laser beam illuminating the key issue of the 21st century; I must read his book to hear more of his analysis and the examples that underpin his arguments.
I'll always remember a dinner party in Spain at the age of 21, hosted by a psychiatrist who invited friends who were socialists and euro-communists whose parties were banned under Franco (this was right after Franco's death). There were several enlightening comments delivered to my young American mind by the man on my left, and one was his answer to my telling him, "Oh no, we have all sorts of charities." He said, "If you had a fairer economic system, you wouldn't need them.". I had never thought of it..
right...if only welfare was giving the poor just a little more money.....everything would be great....Oh wait, why do we need welfare in the first place....never mind.....end capitalism.
Ronny Ron Actually bill clinton ended the welfare that we had since the ‘30’s.
TheVFXbyArt
How so?
Never heard of this man until this day. But i already love him.
Anand speaks for us all.
a lot of old people also love this show
I read your comment at the exact same time that Anand said "I know a lot of young people watch your show."
Thank you for having him on Democracy Now. I learned a lot in this video!
This man is a fantastic communicator, the only choice is Bernie, I am not American,, but feel so invested in this election, we all should be, around the world, who are affected by these policies, especially climate change.
Check out the Doomsday Clock at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. Worried about climate change? Try nuclear winter.
@@bboucharde
Worried about it all, not for me, but my daughters (19&24), it's really frightening.
It’s amazing that he works for TIME, and yet speaks like he works for the Intercept.
He doesn't actually want much to change....he just wants a few reforms .... hence him specifically stating he wants private capitalists to produce stuff.
I was still just a kid when I realized that all these TV commercials where insurance companies and banks tell us they care about you, your family and it's goals as much as you do, are pure BS.
One of the best public speakers of our times
I love Anand! Thank you for thinking!
Always nice to see someone a few weeks ago and think, “wow this guy speaks really well, hope he continues doing media” and later see him creeping into more and more recently published RUclips videos and having written a new book!
He has multiple books.
Love that Elon Musk burn!😄
Boy, Anand is a great synthesizer of myths perpetrated by the 1%.
Amazing conversation. Wake up peeps!!!!
WOW! Anand freaking rocks! He is so concise and precise about his viewpoint and ask long overdue questions abt inequities.
Great segment. Anand is killing it on his book tour (i suggest searching his name on youtube for more of his talks/Q&As/etc.). His profile is clearly on the rise right now as an expert on the topic of social/economic injustice.
Great argument.
Absolutely brilliant deconstruction of whole TED ecosystem.
Childhood Development consultant, Joseph Chilton Pearce said to the Scandinavian countries - if you financially support women during the first year of a child's life you will see your prisons empty out in 20 years. They took his advice and paid for new mothers to be at home with their child that first year and he WAS CORRECT, that is exactly what happened 20 years later. I had the great fortune to hear him speak live, it was standing room only and it was the best lecture I've ever heard. Pure genius.
I’ve got to get this book! I totally agree with Anand. Those who have benefitted from rigging various systems in this so called democracy need to be made a little uncomfortable. That means they need to be taxed more and their dollars should go to making public schools systems equal
across this land for starters.
Anand speaks rather surprisingly delightful insights and vision from a zTime mag man. Keep it up please.
Anand is brilliant, someone speaking publicly on what I think of often THANK YOU
Anand = breath of fresh air.
Its so nice to hear somebody tell it like it is.
God damn, he smoked it!!
The truth makes some feel uncomfortable.
max man “If you’re going to tell the truth, you better have one foot in the stirrup” 🐎 Mark Twain lol
Annand ..chris hedges...noam... john pilger...prof wolf..my 5 societal truth tellers.
Anand said something to the effect that putting the people who have the most to lose in charge of change, you're not going to get the change necessary to fix major social problems. I agree wholeheartedly.
This is so very important. Back to the critical thinking skills. We have to question. We have to be skeptical. We're as propagandized as any other totalitarian country.
about time someone says it as it is
Love this guy! Just so real!!!
Approaching the problem from another angle, perhaps more philosophical - I think the essence of the issue here is that these people (billionaires)are emotionally dependent on projecting a false self image to appear superior to the rest of humanity, because they're terrified of the actual truth. That in fact they are just like everyone else. Fragile, flawed and vulnerable. The only way they can maintain this illusion is by buffering themselves with enourmous and obscene amounts of money. This serves a double function - one to deceive themselves and another is to deceive everyone else. They are in fact very sad individuals who's narcissism impedes their capacity to empathize with their fellow human beings or any other beings for that matter. They are simultaneously protected from the truth by their enourmous wealth and their capacity for self deception. They see the rest of us as an abstraction that they can't quite relate to, therefore empathize with. In order to feel a brotherhood with other's you need to share something with each other and they simply don't know how to share. Their world is so removed from the everyday problems that we experience that they simply can't understand us. I think they are nothing more than a symptom of our times and a general reflection of how we have lost our collective way. The byproduct of this situation is manifold and it includes environmental devastation - Climate Change among other's.
Make the change in your mind, in your heart and then in your world. Where ever that may be. Anand has his role to play in this necessary transformation that we need to make and we have ours, each and every one of us. No matter how small it may seem. Start with your heart!
Anand is a genius. What an excellent interview.
Brilliant and extremely accurate with regards to foundations and organizations
This is so good to hear. Thank you.
Super informative and sold on getting this book.
Absolutely loved this !
Who? #TULSI2020 The MOST POSITIVE Candidate. ALOHA
I agree, Tulsi is the best candidate by policy and integrity. She has been repeatedly slandered because she has the guts to oppose war and call out the insanity of current military actions.
Please donate to her so she can be on the debate wagon. Thx.
@@TC-lj5qu I already did, the girl is from my state.
www.tulsi2020.com/splash/war
Absolutely brilliant! This feels like something huge will come from this. I have long questioned The true philanthropy of Gates' Zucherberg, Clinton Foundations. The wealthy consider philanthropy attending galas for fundraising. It's ever so clean. High couture, French cuisine, write the check, deduct...I am so thrilled to hear this and we need to vitalize this.
Excellent
Thank you for caring enough to answer our request for you to post the second half of your shows.
Yes, we'll said. Excellent analysis of the system.
2 Labor Laws that, when changed, will affect the lives of Workers:
~ the end of the legal use of Mandatory Overtime as protected in the 1938 Fair(?) Labor Standards Act
~ Overtime pay after 8 hours/day...not 40 hours/week
This man is an American hero
💥CHANGE COMES FROM THE GRASSROOTS UPWARDS💥
Not really, according to this guy. Change comes by keep the current social makeup, but with just a few reforms on it.
Very well said Mr. Giridharadas. Thank you.
Great interview with an excellent thinker
Great Job!
I need to hear Anand say is full name. I don't think I've ever heard it pronounced the same way twice.
That's true, everybody gets it wrong. Since I am from India, I do know the correct pronunciation. Break up the last name into 3 parts and say it, Giri-Dar-Das. That's how you say it. :-)
BuntFencer Thanks for that. I think I got a bit closer than Amy.
In my country we get 6 months of maternity leave. It can be split between the parents. The father has 2 week of compulsory leave and an additional 2 weeks of optional full pay leave. I had 2 months of paid leave when my child was born.
what country? in canada we get a year and it can be split between parents...my brother and his wife split theirs.
@@grievingmom that's even better.
Anand ❤❤❤❤ from AFRICA
Brilliant!
This is brilliant!
A breath of fresh air...
I love this guy, he explains this so well
Lean in.
Brilliant
Great interview.
Haha-he's a great speaker. "Patriarchy is actually a posture problem," just dissecting neoliberal bull.
What is a neoliberal?
max man, privatisation of all things w/a CEO in charge. It is a massive gap b/t owner profits and worker’s share of GDP. It is legal bribery and corrupt, unregulated lobbying. It is private for profit prisons. It is unregulated-monopoly capitalism. For starters.
@@maxman-357 Google says neoliberalism is "a form of liberalism tending to favor free-market capitalism," even their "charities" are actually about making someone money. They're like conservatives who are trying to feel good about turning everything into a transaction.
@@vikkiikki1226 everyone likes to place titles, the only thing I care about is what right and God is my judge.
max man, ha! Man, you’re an easy mark for people who want to exploit. Knowledge is power, and guys like Anand, thomas frank, chris hedges and the like write books for people to empower them with knowledge.
Where was God in 2008 when the people who crashed the economy got bonuses while “God fearing people” lost their homes, what small wealth they had plus their retirement?
Jesus’s one “violent” act was when he threw out the merchants from the church.
By comparison, 2008 should have been fire and brinstone and...
Nothing happened... just more injustice.
Keep you head in the sand Mark. Thats what got us decades of neoliberal politics, and now this philanthropic aristocracy and now this “meritless” meritocracy.
In the words of Cornel West:
“You have some work to do my friend.”
He said they “Columbus change”. Nice 👍 I am taking that to my vocabulary
Anand Giridharadas speaks 100% truth everytime he opens his mouth.
I went to my public library website and saw that there were 50 copies of Anand's book and 310 holds!! A good sign. But I guess I won't be reading this book until September......
Garland5 You might just have to break down and just buy it.
Now that's talking truth to power. Raise up. Wake up. Speak up. If they can't hear you or choose not to hear us. Gather a group of friend and yell louder together. It's time to act instead of internalizing things and listening to commentary. But rather let's do something about it. Now!
That Jab at Elon Musk though. 😂
"(In the 2020 election) Kumbaya is a recipe for slaughter." I'll remember that quote.
This guy is tapped in
Anand is the new leader of our time.
Anand. Good analysis and good book.
Pick a candidate. How about Bernie Sanders. Lets make change happen.
Support a true progressive candidate, not a regular corporate Democrat. Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren. Beto is dull.
Hopefully being at Time magazine won't prevent you from doing the right thing.
Aka vote for a socialist.
@@IronskullGM Bernie's socialism would be center/right on the political spectrum in most European countries (social democrat). What few US citizens seem to realize is that we are now one of the most conservative countries in the world.
@@53toddk a social democrat would not declare themselves a democratic socialist. I am pretty sure China is the world's most conservative ultra-nationalist nation that puts Muslims and Africans in Concentration camps to re-educate them to conserve the Sino culture. Also the theological despotic regimes of the Middle east and Iran are much more conservative. We have already fought 2 world wars because Europeans have thought their way was the only way to rule the world, you would think people would have learned not to listen to them anymore. The US is the least racist and most culturally diverse nation on earth that people of all religions live in relative peace with each other. Can you think of anywhere else that can say the same?
@@IronskullGM You are right... I should have confined my comparison of US conservatism to other "western" countries. Canada is not as diverse as the USA, but they have been doing pretty well in terms of limited/low public expressions of racism. I think Germany (if you exclude the former East Germany, where most of their neo-Nazis reside) has done surprisingly well in living down their historical shame.
Why give their money away through charity? Why not just pay their employees a livable wage and give them good benefits? Both are tax write-offs. Is it notoriety and the stroking of their egos. But why is it considered better to give away stuff than to pay the people who work hard to make your fortunes for you? What kind of weird psychology is that?
Yup. Exactly. Neo-liberalism. Wish certain people could see through this con... J. Bezos; B. Gates, et al.
Hey Anand....the iPhone wouldn't exist, if not for massive public funding of research & development.
The same is true for MANY other products whose development was funded by American tax payers. Corporations profit from OUR investments, then pay no taxes.
brillant love everything this man says!
Much respect for this brother