“Winners Takes All” by Anand Giridharadas

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  • Much of today’s “social change” is about steering changes away from solutions that harm the wealthy
  • Entering the world of money to address the problems caused by money
  • Ask what has been done before asking what can be done
  • “Win-win” is about solving problems without addressing root causes
  • Americans are more productive than ever, but that productivity is captured by the elite
  • Connecting networks (like Uber and Facebook) are a double standard if they can dictate terms and disavow control
  • Voices of the critics are neglected while we embrace the voices that “ride the wave”
  • “Thought leader”
    • Focus on the victim, not the perpetrator
    • Personalize the political
      • Learn to zoom in and tell narratives
  • Beliefs naturally shift in accord with interests
  • The powerful benefit the most from lawlessness
  • We are often trying to solve our problems with the same tools that made them
  • Never ask the wealthy to do less harm
  • Carnegie argued that the rich should be allowed to make as much money as possible, any way possible, and then give away that money better than the poor would
  • Some where’s vs Every where’s
    • Some where’s motivate us to action and hide the scale of the problems
  • Globalist have “correct” answers that are arrived at by consensus not democracy
  • Politics is meant to create ideas that are easy to like but difficult to love
  • Globalization is, in part, trying to bypass or compensate for local politics that are not working
  • Private investments can crowd out public funding
  • “You should do it because it is the right thing to do, but it is not enough to do the right thing, so it is also good business”
  • “I can speak in the name of my child, but other people are not your children”

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