Anand Giridharadas on the elite charade of changing the world
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
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The Power of the Rich and Powerful to Rule the World
The rich and powerful do rule the world and they rule it often as I learned in this reporting through things that are actually banal on the surface like what we're talking about. Not just these kids going to these firms it's then these kids 20 years later who get the job at some foundation trying to make all public schools more equal. The pipeline out of these firms again creates a kind of delimiting of solutions very far down the road so so this gets not seem to me like a conspiracy theorywhat the dumb right QAnon is a conspiracy right the rich and powerful rule the world but when you get into how people think that works sure there's an imagination of conspiracy.
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