Anand Giridharadas
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Yeah.
Yeah.
That said, you're right.
This generation just like never, I don't think they ever wanted to like be Mark Zuckerberg and then saw through it.
I think they just don't want to be Mark Zuckerberg.
And that's the generation that Zoran, by the way, really mobilized.
I think another thing is that you can only...
make people not know the condition of their own lives to a certain point.
And I think this billionaire class, these oligarchs, overplayed their hand.
The whole way this thing works is by giving out just enough that people think it's fine.
And I think they actually just miscalculate it.
If most people don't have a couple hundred bucks to deal with an emergency expense, you've gone too far.
If most people feel like when they go to the grocery store, they've been manhandled by the economy, you've gone too far.
If most people think their kids are going to be worse off than them, you've gone too far.
They took too much.
And it's so interesting.
I wrote a piece.
There was a moment.
I don't know if you remember these.
It was two concurrent news stories, like the biggest stories of the week.