Dec 30, 2022
Anand Giridharadas visits Google to discuss his book "Winners Take
All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World."
Anand 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. The book argues that elites rebrand themselves as
saviors of the poor; that they lavishly reward so-called thought
leaders who redefine “change” in ways that preserve the status quo;
and that they constantly seek to do more good, but never less
harm.
Giridharadas asks hard questions: for example, why should our
gravest problems be solved by the unelected upper crust instead of
the public institutions eroded by lobbying and tax dodging? 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.
Originally published in October of 2018.
Visit YouTube.com/TalksatGoogle to watch the video.