Highly recommend people read this well written, informative, and transparent book that examines the ways in which the ultra rich market and rationalize maintaining the capitalist culture and systems that only truly benefit a few while oppressing the rest. It highlights the importance of voting for legislations and people, both locally and nationally, who acknowledge and aim to fix the problems in our systems and democracy in meaningful ways rather than abandon it in favor of workarounds that only treat symptoms and empower plutocrats.

Giridharadas articulates an opinion that is all too rarely expressed these days. He rejects the consensus view of philanthropists being the saviors for society, and in fact indicts them for being, at best, complicit in, and at worst, the cause of our society’s problems. For example, creating job insecurity by cutting wages and automating jobs, disenfranchising women by lobbying against legislation mandating maternity leave. While sympathetic to his interviewees, who are mostly the “doing good by doing well” type, he is still able to critique them in a pointed way. A great read, though a bit repetitive if I’m being honest. And for us to stop looking to wealthy philanthropists to solve our problems, we need government to step up and offer solutions. I wish Giridharadas would have spent more time addressing this question of how exactly to do this. But what he does address, he does so very well. I think this is a necessary

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I saw the author interviewed on a Bay Area PBS station. He was articulate and insightful, so I immediately downloaded the book. This is an excellent read for anyone interested in economic social justice and the origin, evolution and sustaining power of the current system.