Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

“an outdated, narrow approach to value creation.”

to treat them. This, in Walker’s view, made it important

issue.” The spread of these protocols was, he said, a “continuation of the colonial, imperial arrogance of the enlightened white man with money and science, and noble and benevolent intentions, who will solve these problems.” The situation was no longer British colonizers helping themselves to your country. It was well-suited people with laptops of

“the true antidote for the temporary unequal distribution of wealth, the reconciliation of the rich and the poor—a reign of harmony.”

recent years, Giussani noticed how elites seemed increasingly guided by lite facsimiles of change. These ideas largely exempted markets and their winners from scrutiny, despite their immense power in deciding how people’s lives were lived and their support for a system that produced extraordinary fortunes and extraordinary exclusion. These notions

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This thought led Walker to the observation that America was becoming privatized now. The American public had their big conversation out there in the messy democracy, and the elite had its own ongoing intramural chat. He mentioned the proliferation of idea salons in his social universe. He brought up the people who spend tens of thousands of dollars

men.” Its methods aren’t to be questioned. Carnegie wrote: We accept and welcome therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few.

People, especially the winners who shape tastes and patronize thought leaders, want things to be constructive, uplifting, and given to hope.