Why philanthropy isn’t the answer (with Anand Giridharadas)
Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
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Do You Really Know What You're Doing?
Isay: If an individual act of dogooding is a betting a harmful system on a larger scale, then it may actually be a counter productive deed. Isay: People who work the hardest to be richest are the most status conscious people in our society. The rule of thumb that i would use is you can wipe out bad things in the billions and do it with gifts in the millions. These people all hash themselves as predatory social parias right? And i think here, the point is that it's a bargain basement way of changing your name 100%.
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