And the Africans are getting tired of, actually, all these people coming there to help them and just collecting bracelets. They say, “You know, I want to sort of go to Africa, sort of help the Africans.” They've never been to Africa. Every young person on these elite campuses, they don’t say they want to be bankers anymore. Every young person-I go to campuses, where I spend a lot of time.
Social everything, social venture, social enterprise, social this, impact this, impact that. And you really have more money being given away than has ever been given away. Elon Musk is going to space-which, actually, would be great for everybody. And the Google people are organizing all the world’s information and trying to do this and that. Jeff Bezos is transforming people through charity. Right? Mark Zuckerberg is changing the world. A lot of the-it is hard to walk down the street these days without running into a billionaire who says they’re changing the world. So, let’s zoom out from those parents and think about that duality, which I think applies in many ways to our age and plutocracy in our age. And so, in many ways, those-while they were rigging the system. Right? This Bill McGlashan guy from TPG literally ran the biggest impact investing fund in the world, to help people through the power of investing. I’m wondering if you can tie that in to your overall thesis of Winners Take All.ĪNAND GIRIDHARADAS: You know, Amy, we live in-I would guarantee you that a lot of the people, a lot of the parents, ensnared in this college bribery scandal embody what I talk about when I say-ĪNAND GIRIDHARADAS: -”the elite charade of changing the world,” which is, both of the actresses, whom I checked out online, do a bunch of philanthropy.
In Part 1 of our conversation, Anand, we talked about the college entrance scandal. This is Democracy Now!, with Part 2 of our conversation. That’s the new book by Anand Giridharadas, editor-at-large at Time magazine, former correspondent and columnist at The New York Times. Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!,, The War and Peace Report.
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