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Anand Giridharadas says Twitter's Trump ban is emblematic of how American capitalism functions today
Americans begging private firms to not empower terrorist incitement is "so weird - and it tells you…
Juliana Kaplan
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Inequality flamethrower Anand Giridharadas on why billionaires shouldn't exist and his hopes for the Biden administration
"We don't need the richest and most powerful people in the society to give more," Giridharadas told…
Juliana Kaplan
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Philanthropy is still dominated by the ultrawealthy, but asking billionaires to solve inequality is colossally stupid
"We don't need the richest and most powerful people in the society to give more. We need them to ta…
Juliana Kaplan,Dominic-Madori Davis
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Writer Anand Giridharadas brutally criticized corporate board members at a conference, asking them 'where were you' on the climate crisis, the opioid epidemic, and widening inequality
Giridharadas called out board members in his remarks. "A lot of your children and grandchildren do …
Kate Taylor
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LeBron James joked on Twitter that he will not be paying $8 per month to keep his blue checkmark
Twitter is expected to remove blue checkmarks for legacy verified accounts on April 1, and LeBron J…
Tyler Lauletta
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Ultra-wealthy Americans want you to think their philanthropy will change the world. They should just pay their taxes instead.
"If you are an average American taxpayer, the 400 wealthiest families in America now pay a lower ta…
Paul Constant
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Trump's campaign nearly went broke for the 2020 homestretch, insiders say
Trump's new campaign team, led by Bill Stepien, had to rush to cancel spending to salvage the presi…
Matt Turner
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A former Ikea staffer and comedian shows how thankless retail jobs can be in a viral TikTok series imitating conversations with customers
Comedian Scott Seiss' TikToks illustrates what goes through retail employees' heads when they hear …
Melissa Wiley
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Bill Gates is recommending a controversial book that 'shows that there's a path through crisis' for nations in trouble. Here's why he thinks you should read it.
Diamond uses case studies to demonstrate 12 principles that can help countries navigate major chall…
Aria Bendix
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LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman defended a former MIT official who accepted donations from Jeffrey Epstein
Ito and Hoffman have a well-documented relationship outside of their work at MIT. The pair spoke on…
Taylor Nicole Rogers
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Wally Funk was the only endearing thing about Jeff Bezos' spaceflight
Bezos' comments after the launch made him seem out of touch and undermined the humanity-saving imag…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Looking to billionaires like Ray Dalio to fix inequality is like 'asking a fox to worry about hen protection,' says a prominent critic of the Davos set
"What Ray Dalio needs to understand, which members of his class so often struggle to understand, is…
Richard Feloni
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'Changing the world' has become a way for elites to shoot down ideas that threaten their power, says the critic who has billionaires buzzing
And in his book, he further explored the way that corporate leaders appear to use philanthropy as a…
Richard Feloni
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MSNBC anchors keep comparing Sanders' campaign and its supporters to Nazis, and they're being called to resign
"I was reading last night about the fall of France in the summer of 1940," Matthews said during MSN…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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The critic who has the world's richest people buzzing says if we want to fix society's problems, we're asking the wrong people to do it
"I think you and I would agree it would be weird if your approach to segregation in the 1940s in Al…
Richard Feloni
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The critic who has the world's richest people buzzing says Americans must not elect another billionaire president
In a recent interview with Business Insider, Giridharadas said their performance so far - like the …
Richard Feloni
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Joe Biden responded to a debate question about slavery and reparations by going off on a tangent about how black parents should raise their kids, and people aren't happy about it
"Make sure that every single child does, in fact, have three, four, and five-year-olds go to school…
Grace Panetta,John Haltiwanger
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Jeff Bezos could be the first 'woke' billionaire philanthropist - but only if he's willing to help solve the problems he's created
According to Giridharadas, Bezos is the first mega-giver to enter the arena of big philanthropy in …
Aria Bendix
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'We're all passengers in a billionaire hijacking' says the critic who has the world's richest people buzzing
Giridharadas: I think the B Corp example is fascinating, and I think that Elizabeth Warren proposal…
Richard Feloni
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How Trump exposed, exploited, and embodied the cult of billionaire 'big philanthropy'
This change arrived at the expense of blue-collar jobs that once formed the bedrock of the American…