Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World Audiobook (Free)

The New York Times bestselling, 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 on seek to resolve. An essential browse for understanding a number of the egregious abuses of power that dominate today’s news.

Former New York Occasions columnist Anand Giridharadas calls for us in to the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, where the rich and effective combat for equality and justice any way about Winners Take All: The Top notch Charade of Changing the World they can–except ways that threaten the cultural order and their position atop it. We see how they rebrand themselves as saviors of the indegent; the way they lavishly reward ‘thought leaders’ who redefine ‘transformation’ in winner-friendly ways; and exactly how they continuously seek to accomplish more great, but never less harm. We listen to the limousine confessions of the celebrated foundation employer; see an American president hem and haw about his plutocratic benefactors; and go to a cruise-ship meeting where entrepreneurs celebrate their very own self-interested magnanimity.

Giridharadas asks really difficult questions: Why, for instance, should our gravest problems be solved with the unelected upper crust rather than the public institutions it erodes by lobbying and dodging fees? He also factors toward an answer: Instead of depend on scraps in the winners, we must take on the grueling democratic work of building more robust, egalitarian institutions and really changing the world. A proactive approach for elites and everyday residents alike.