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Anand Giridharadas on the elite charade of changing the world

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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The Role of Money in Social Change

i think what i'm really arguing for in this book is a change in who has power and part of what bothers me about the rich and powerful kind of owning and co-opting social change. People's lives are better as much as possible within the existing power distribution, he says. He suggests specific policies that precisely because they are already on the table could show them as alternatives to emptier forms of change.

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