![]() It consists of enlightened businesspeople and their collaborators in the worlds of charity, academia, media, government, and think tanks. MarketWorld is an ascendant power elite that is defined by the concurrent drives to do well and do good, to change the world while also profiting from the status quo.He was selected for the Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute – four one-week sessions with a group of twenty or so classmates, spread over two years, in which they would read important texts and debate them and discuss our lives and woes in secrecy, while pondering how to “make a difference. Here are my favorite takeaways from reading, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas:Īnand started asking questions about the elites approach to solving the world’s greatest problem with smoke screens like conferences, speeches, the consultants and the not for profit industrial complex. It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it.-UPTON SINCLAIR ![]() ![]() The book offers a series of portraits of this elite-led, market-friendly, winner-safe social change. ![]()
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