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Winners Take All | Anand Giridharadas | Talks at Google
Anand Giridharadas presents his book Winners Take All at Google, arguing that the global elite's philanthropy and 'win-win' framing preserve the systems that create inequity. He challenges the audience, including Google employees, to examine their own role in that system.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters recommend it as a pointed critique of philanthropy and win-win thinking, delivered inside Google itself, and cite it across threads on wealth, tax and tech power.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Talks at Google
- Topic
- elite philanthropy
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 9
- HN mentions in dataset
- 17
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2026
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From the original HN conversations
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Giridharadas talk is explosive in terms of its ideas. From what I can tell, he's not pulling any punches even though he's been invited to speak on a Google campus (Boston). At 29:03 Giridharadas challenges his audience to demand that Google (and other Silicon Valley …
mistersquid on Hacker News · 2018-10
In Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World [video]One of the best explanations why "philanthropy" and "novel (disrupting), win-win solutions" for systemic problems is highly anti-democratic (and inciting class warfare) is Anand Giridharadas's recent talk[1] at Google[2]. I strongly encourage everyone - especialy anyone employed at Google - to watch it. [1] [VIDEO] …
pdkl95 on Hacker News · 2019-02
In Is Philanthropy Anti-Democratic?> But a system of philanthropy is inherently biased insofar as since donors can and do choose charitable causes that match their own preferences. Anand Giridharadas goes pretty deeply into that idea in this talk that he did at Google. I highly recommend watching it, …
CharlesColeman on Hacker News · 2019-03
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