Winners Take All
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Anand Giridharadas
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to "change the world" preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve. An essential read for understanding some of the egregious abuses of power that dominate today’s news."Impassioned.... Entertaining reading.” —The Washington PostAnand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, where the rich and powerful fight for equality and justice any way they can—except ways that threaten the social order and their position atop it. They rebrand themselves as saviors of the poor; they lavishly reward “thought leaders” who redefine “change” in ways that preserve the status quo; and they constantly seek to do more good, but never less harm. Giridharadas asks hard questions: Why, for example, should our gravest problems be solved by the unelected upper crust instead of the public institutions it erodes by lobbying and dodging taxes? His groundbreaking investigation has already forced a great, sorely needed reckoning among the world’s wealthiest and those they hover above, and it points toward an answer: Rather than rely on scraps from the winners, we must take on the grueling democratic work of building more robust, egalitarian institutions and truly changing the world—a call to action for elites and everyday citizens alike.
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Author
Anand Giridharadas
Pages
304
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published Date
2018-08-28
ISBN
0451493257 9780451493255
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"The most important book I’ve read this year. Fitting it came at the end. This book is a masterpiece...it takes on a topic that is rarely discussed because the people with money and power don’t want it to be. Inequality in this country continues to get unfathomably worse and it’s a product of a system that was designed that way. “Inspire the rich to do more good, but never, ever tell them to do less harm; inspire them to give back, but never, ever tell them to take less; inspire them to join the solution, but never, ever accused them of being part of the problem.”"
"If you are a Millennial that has struggled both to play and win the game your entire life, just wanting to help people or to have a steady successful career in the helping professions or otherwise, this book will make you simultaneously depressed and furious. I felt like I was reading my entire life story and things are just getting worse. I have a masters in social work, masters in psychology, and doctorate in clinical psychology. When did social justice and social policy become a bad thing? When did we start worshiping rich people?"
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