![]() Giridharadas cites one shocking statistic that says just eight billionaires, most from the field of technology, possess as much wealth as the bottom half of the world’s population. It’s a charade, he argues, because these philanthropic tech billionaires and bankers are really only concerned with maintaining a system that has provided them with unimaginable wealth, while leaving a vast swath of humanity in need of help. I f you happened to see the video of the Dutch historian Rutger Bregman confronting a Davos audience with the elephant in the room that is tax avoidance (“It feels like I’m at a firefighters’ conference and no one’s allowed to speak about water,” he said) and are looking for something that captures the same spirit, Winners Take All is the book for you.Īnand Giridharadas, a former New York Times columnist, takes aim at the modern plutocratic class that gathers at Davos and Aspen with the stated intention of making the world a better place, what Giridharadas calls in his subtitle: The Elite Charade of Changing the World. ![]()
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