Summary of Anand Giridharadas' Winners Take All

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Get the Summary of Anand Giridharadas' Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.Original book introduction: Former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, where the rich and powerful fight for equality and justice any way they can--except ways that threaten the social order and their position atop it. We see how they rebrand themselves as saviors of the poor; how they lavishly reward "thought leaders" who redefine "change" in winner-friendly ways; and how they constantly seek to do more good, but never less harm. We hear the limousine confessions of a celebrated foundation boss; witness an American president hem and haw about his plutocratic benefactors; and attend a cruise-ship conference where entrepreneurs celebrate their own self-interested magnanimity.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Nov 18, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638156925

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Insights on Anand Giridharadas's Winners Take All

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The author, a college senior, had to decide what she wanted to do with her life after graduating from college. She had been interested in politics and public service from a young age, but had no particular career path in mind. She ended up choosing to major in international relations, which eventually led her to work for a nonprofit.

#2

The author took a class on American political philosophy, and was surprised to find herself among the majority of the class that was extremely angry about the state of the country.

#3

The author’s friend, a college graduate named Matt, was making more than twice as much as his counterpart in 1980, before taxes. That was the year before the Great Recession. If he had entered the top 1 percent of earners, his income would be more than seven times what it was in 1980, with a cohort average of $122 million.

#4

In the 1960s and ’70s, when many of today’s young adults were growing up, the term changing the world usually meant taking on the system, rather than improving it.

#5

Neoliberalism, an ideology that promotes the idea that the best way to improve the world is to empower individuals and businesses to make their own decisions, has taken over the Western world in recent years. It has done so by co-opting the left, and has even created a liberal subcaste to keep the left’s traditional goals in mind.

#6

The shift in culture that allowed for