Anand Giridharadas writes the Admit One column for the New York Times's arts pages and the Currents column for its global edition. He is the author of India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of A Nation's Remaking. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
An insider's 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.
Former New York Times columnist 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. We see how they rebrand themselves as saviors of the poor; how they lavishly reward "thought leaders" who redefine "change" in winner-friendly ways; and how they constantly seek to do more good, but never less harm. We hear the limousine confessions of a celebrated foundation boss; witness an American president hem and haw about his plutocratic benefactors; and attend a cruise-ship conference where entrepreneurs celebrate their own self-interested magnanimity.
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? He also 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 th
發表於2024-12-18
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圖書標籤: 社會學 美國 不平等研究 社科 社會經濟學 英文原版 非虛構 nonfiction
作者說通過科技或商業手段這種所謂的雙贏策略是無法真正改變階級不平等的,富人/精英做這一切也不是為瞭解決問題而是忽略真正的問題從而維護他們的階級和財富。通過勾畫齣美好未來變相推動自己的商業發展,以及時代前進,而在這前進浪潮中,總會有很多普通人被落下,他們的睏境無人關心,所以這也是民粹主義抬頭的一個原因嗎?
評分do well的人能否 do good? 這本不錯,相當犀利。還把steven pinker之流貶瞭一通
評分ok, rich people are evil, because though they donate a fraction of their wealth they are not willing to share their power with the rest of the world, equally. so i take it that the author is wholeheartedly willing to pay minimal 50% tax on his income, especially that he's actually part of the wealthy. no solution proposed whatsoever. what rubbish.
評分3.5星,一場從上到下的群嘲,一道無解的問題,未來十年的世界必然是人民積怨激化,民粹泛濫的時代,準備好吧
評分ok, rich people are evil, because though they donate a fraction of their wealth they are not willing to share their power with the rest of the world, equally. so i take it that the author is wholeheartedly willing to pay minimal 50% tax on his income, especially that he's actually part of the wealthy. no solution proposed whatsoever. what rubbish.
Winners Take All 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載