Why philanthropy isn’t the answer (with Anand Giridharadas)
Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
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Are the People Down Below There in Spite of Success of the People on the Top?
Winners take all is an emphatic argument that the people down below are down there because someone's standing on their back. The question is, how rich and how much wealth should the system provide for the most capable and hard working person in the society relative to others? So jeff bazos net worth, and i use that word worth cautiously, because i think the word mis explains what's actually happening. It implies that he deserves it exactly. But obviously, if jeff was required to pay every worker connected to amazon, whether they were his direct employer or contractor, enough to live in dignity, his net worth might not be in the hundreds of billions. In a fairer
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