Anand Giridharadas

So if you end up with $300 billion in a supposed market economy, I'm oversimplifying a lot here, but I think this is important. If you end up with like $300 billion or even $10 billion, probably you didn't just show up in a competitive marketplace and have something really good that you were offering because that kind of doesn't explain why that wasn't cut into by competitors.

So if you end up with $300 billion in a supposed market economy, I'm oversimplifying a lot here, but I think this is important. If you end up with like $300 billion or even $10 billion, probably you didn't just show up in a competitive marketplace and have something really good that you were offering because that kind of doesn't explain why that wasn't cut into by competitors.

So if you end up with $300 billion in a supposed market economy, I'm oversimplifying a lot here, but I think this is important. If you end up with like $300 billion or even $10 billion, probably you didn't just show up in a competitive marketplace and have something really good that you were offering because that kind of doesn't explain why that wasn't cut into by competitors.

Probably you did some things to limit the entry of other competitors into that arena, to have monopolies on something, to monopolize, let's say, government contracts that fed you and not others. And if you look at all these guys and you actually break into what they have done,

Probably you did some things to limit the entry of other competitors into that arena, to have monopolies on something, to monopolize, let's say, government contracts that fed you and not others. And if you look at all these guys and you actually break into what they have done,

Probably you did some things to limit the entry of other competitors into that arena, to have monopolies on something, to monopolize, let's say, government contracts that fed you and not others. And if you look at all these guys and you actually break into what they have done,

they they're it's all based on stepping on other people right um and so what they are afraid of is the fact that they actually cannot sustain that level of wealth without affirmative action for billionaires right they need like that fortune is not based on their product being awesome It's not.

they they're it's all based on stepping on other people right um and so what they are afraid of is the fact that they actually cannot sustain that level of wealth without affirmative action for billionaires right they need like that fortune is not based on their product being awesome It's not.

they they're it's all based on stepping on other people right um and so what they are afraid of is the fact that they actually cannot sustain that level of wealth without affirmative action for billionaires right they need like that fortune is not based on their product being awesome It's not.

That fortune is based 90 plus percent of the time in some kind of predatory or aggressive behavior that they need not to be regulated, not to be investigated, not to be unionized against. So they are, in a way, very, very vulnerable and dependent because their entire structure depends on kind of special perks and special privileges. So in a way, they're not masters of the universe.

That fortune is based 90 plus percent of the time in some kind of predatory or aggressive behavior that they need not to be regulated, not to be investigated, not to be unionized against. So they are, in a way, very, very vulnerable and dependent because their entire structure depends on kind of special perks and special privileges. So in a way, they're not masters of the universe.

That fortune is based 90 plus percent of the time in some kind of predatory or aggressive behavior that they need not to be regulated, not to be investigated, not to be unionized against. So they are, in a way, very, very vulnerable and dependent because their entire structure depends on kind of special perks and special privileges. So in a way, they're not masters of the universe.

In a way, they are right to be afraid because what they're really afraid of is competing on an open market.

In a way, they are right to be afraid because what they're really afraid of is competing on an open market.

In a way, they are right to be afraid because what they're really afraid of is competing on an open market.

No, I'll respond to that in the following way, taking us a little bit outside of this country, because it's sometimes helpful to look from the inside out. My family's from India. I was born in this country in the United States, but my parents immigrated here.

No, I'll respond to that in the following way, taking us a little bit outside of this country, because it's sometimes helpful to look from the inside out. My family's from India. I was born in this country in the United States, but my parents immigrated here.

No, I'll respond to that in the following way, taking us a little bit outside of this country, because it's sometimes helpful to look from the inside out. My family's from India. I was born in this country in the United States, but my parents immigrated here.

When I was growing up, you go to India as a child, I noticed certain cultural differences in the way people speak about life, opportunity, jobs, businesses. And in India, there was this thing, it's still there, it was certainly even more there back in the 80s, where everything was about connection. So if you did anything successful, the assumption is... Well, who did you know?

When I was growing up, you go to India as a child, I noticed certain cultural differences in the way people speak about life, opportunity, jobs, businesses. And in India, there was this thing, it's still there, it was certainly even more there back in the 80s, where everything was about connection. So if you did anything successful, the assumption is... Well, who did you know?