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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 Importance of a Social Conscience in the Age of Inequality

The way the system works is that it takes kids who are at usually elite colleges and who have a social conscience. It says if you come to mckinsey or you come to golden sachs yes we know the way you ultimately want to do is change the world but you can't do it until you learn spread cheating. There's become this incredibly powerful mechanism for pulling kids into this pathway while still using the language of justice and social change and you know do good orism. These institutions i think pitch themselves as the new liberal arts in many ways.

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