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"The question that elite's refuse to ask she said is: Why are there in the world so many people that you need to help in the first place? You should ask yourself 'have your actions contributed at all to that. Have you caused through your actions any harm, and if yes the fact that now you are helping some people, however effectively doesn't seem to be enough to compensate."
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This book is a critique of philanthrocapitalism (the idea of doing charity not as a social necessity but as a long term business investment), which has rightly started to come under fire quite recently. Anand (someone called him the “Indian Ryan Reynolds” and I can’t get it out of my head now) asserts that there is no such thing as the “Win-Win” doctrine of doing business which has been prevalent in business schools and that the success of businesses is often predicated or built upon the misery
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Dec 18, 2018
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This is an incredibly insightful book. The author examines and explains the dynamics that have created and are perpetuating the global oligarchy.
Unfortunately, I despair that the vast majority of people who read this book will be the ones who least need to read it. They will either be people who are entrenched in the world the author critiques, or they will be people like me who already have a sense of the problem and want to understand it better. The vast majority of people have no idea this i ...more
Unfortunately, I despair that the vast majority of people who read this book will be the ones who least need to read it. They will either be people who are entrenched in the world the author critiques, or they will be people like me who already have a sense of the problem and want to understand it better. The vast majority of people have no idea this i ...more
My only question is this, how do we get the portion of angry people who are on the "populist right" who hate government and taxes and social spending to realize they are mad at the right people, but for the wrong reasons?
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