Anand Giridharadas

That's part of the naturalness.

And so then you're absolutely right.

Then what they do is they say, my money-making is evidence of my smarts.

instead of all the things you talked about, which is actually it's evidence in many cases of wage theft and bending the rules and being a little more sociopathic than the guy next to you and a little more willing to hurt people.

So you tell the story that my money came from my brilliance.

And therefore, now that I have this money, I wanna do this initiative, whatever, I can parachute into the work of social change and bring to it these same

kind of ninja skills of the mind that allowed me to make money.

In fact, to now solve these other social problems, the same skills are the most useful and people who are not conversant in these skills should step aside.

Now, this again is a brilliant and sinister move that I think you can't really find precedent for in previous elites.

What they are saying is,

are big shared social problems.

How do you empower women to play all the roles that they can and wish to play?

That's a civilizational challenge.

That's a tough problem.

You got it.

That is at the heart of what Winners Take All is about.

And it is what is new in this time.

I don't think past generations of elites, as I read the history, felt it was necessary to almost appropriate the reform against them.

At least there was some recognition of like, I play offense, you play defense.

I'm going to use my power against you and you try to marshal a lot of people against me and like, let's see where we end up.