Why Billionaires Won't Save Us
Hiya! Hope your week went well. Here’s this week’s video, three quotes, and three links. Hope you find them useful.
Three Quotes:
“Profitable companies built in questionable ways and employing reckless means engage in corporate social responsibility, and some rich people make a splash by ‘giving back’ – regardless of the fact that they may have caused serious societal problems as they built their fortunes.”
— Anand Giridharadas
“I sit on a man’s back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible…except by getting off his back.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money.”
— Alanis Obomsawim
Three Links:
Jeff Bezos and the Golden Age of Climate Hypocrisy (The New Republic)
REPORT: Gilded Giving 2020: How Wealth Inequality Distorts Philanthropy and Imperils Democracy (Inequality.org)
Anand Giridharadas: Winners Take All | Town Hall Seattle (Interview with Anand Giridharadas)
Hope you have a wonderful weekend,
Charlie