Winners Take All | Anand Giridharadas | Talks at Google
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- Опубліковано 19 тра 2024
- Anand Giridharadas, MSNBC analyst and Aspen Institute fellow, discusses his new book, "Winners Take All," which explores the philanthropic practices of the global elite and argues that they reinforce social inequities rather than ameliorate them.
Get the book here: goo.gl/jLhPcd
To those at Google watching this who don't know the story: Google initially decided, for the first time in its history, to not publish this video to its Talks at Google site here on UA-cam after it was recorded. This presentation was given on the second week of September, note the publishing time lag. Giridharadas contacted Google to ask why, and his contact said "I'm not on that team anymore" and was blown off. He then leaked the story to a leading tech journalist, who started calling Google for comment because she was working on a story about why, for the first time ever, a Talks at Google video was not published. They published it the same week -- obviously reluctantly and under pressure. The only reason you're seeing this guys is because power is doing damage control. Wake the fuck up.
A month later deosn't seem so bad. Maybe they just had stress, someone went into holidays or took another job and things got lost in the process. Not everything is a conspiracy ^^
Hey Kinn..... I just stated ten facts. Please tell me how any one of those facts are wrong, one at a time. I'm open to new information. Please, do feel free to refute what I said. So far, you absolutely haven't.
1) ten facts? i wont count what hasnt been counted before so do that for me before you send me on a wild goose chase.
2) It is uploaded now and can be watched. I don't care much about the circumstances around it.
3) Sure i did refuted, by relativating your interpretations
4) Has google put out an explanation for the delay? If yes, why is that not equaly put into perspective?
I guess his truth to power comment has been edited out. Eg. Google & the Anti-trust laws, google should be split into 2 companies:
"Goo & Gle"
@@kinngrimm OR, it is and you just failed to self inform.
Probably good idea to watch Anand's RSA Talk and the speech that pretty much got him dismissed from The Aspen Institute; "the Thriving World, the Wilting World and You"
This is what speaking truth to power looks like.
Brandon S. And they paid him to do it 😎
@@21gramsofsoul This guy is telling elites they are part of the systemic problem, and they can actually help to fix it, and you think the solution is to perpetrate violence on him because he showed up to a professional engagement not looking like a slob? I can do that haircut with a quarter can of gel. And obviously, he wants to make some money off the book he wrote. To follow up, I need to ask you a question 21 foulgrams; do you keep sucking on the corporate shlong because you hope they will trickle down on you, or do you really have no actual self interest, and are only doing it because you like the way it tastes? There's no excuse unless you're a 1%er to dislike the ideas this guy is espousing, so if there's another reason you hate him, please let me know.
Except that google edited out the part where Anand says it should be split up into 2 companies:
"Goo" & "Gle"
@@StudioPhotoGraphics guy is for real and sharp as an Arkansas Toothpick. He's a national treasure and is throwing hard crisp punches for the working class. What's not to like?
Knickerthief he wrote a book and can frame his argument. You can’t do either and are in the comments section. That says a lot.
There's something about this talk that reminds me of basic morality being explained to small children: "What's good for you isn't always what's good for others." Sadly unsurprising that corporations need it explained it to them this way.
This is a really special talk - it's exactly the right person talking to the right people about the right things in the right way - something you so rarely see. And notice how you can taste the discomfort, you can feel what the google people are feeling - it's such a beautiful demonstration of how we do not seek challenge - this talk is beautiful because it's an anomaly, it's the exception, when what needs to be said gets said to those who need to hear it.
this is what i admire about certain Americans as a Chinese. Sadly people like him are rarer and rarer
Agreed, his book is eye opening to say the least.
Watching his talk you can most definitely feel the discomfort, the first time he mentions him being there and no one reading his book the room meets him with laughter. The second time though, there’s only a stifled laugh. They were listening, and what he has to say is indeed important. I’m glad I discovered this writer, his ability as a speaker is phenomenal.
It’s inspiring, realizing that the world today isn’t too different from that of the feudal societies of old. In ancient Egypt they held on to rule through their use of Ma’at, their divine right to rule, and the people accepted them for that reason, that and the prospect of slightly better treatment or grain. Now it seems as if the American Dream has been weaponized in a similar fashion, the idea that working a 5-9 job offers the opportunity to join the elites of the world, the ability to retire and throw in the towel for life.
It’s a scary realization for someone who’s entering their young adult life.
Who’s Justin Rosenstein?
i just discovered this man and i love his lucidity and eloquence and fairness and magnificent silver hair.
It's a wig.
I love your handle.
Fully agreed on all of that :D
@@a_diamond.
@@janidr ?
"There is a great danger to have a King who thinks he's an insurgent."
Well we all need a new king who is an insurgent
This guy made me cry. Such beautifully articulated remedies to a sick society that is beyond greed and beyond indifference
I'm addicted to the tone of his voice.
Anand is one of the most important thinkers of our generation. Takes a large serious problem and unpacks it like a boss.
Agree
Agree!
This is certainly an excellent presentation that deserves to be discussed around the family table and everywhere else where honest discernment is valued.
family and more importantly in city based groups But billionaires are busy making it race issue in western world and europe to divert issues .
very well stated - best response I've seen thus far
Single payer health care certainly would be expensive for the elites who are getting rich on the present health care mess. That's why we don't have it here in the US and why therefore, great numbers of people risk bankruptcy for a serious health problem.
The problem is the large number of those who are not rich, but advocate against their own best interests and in favor of the elites.
A PENNY taxed off the elite wealthy class is expensive for them(!!) 0.00000000001% off the elite wealthy class is expensive for them. There is nothing cheap or fair or ‘not expensive’ to INSATIABLE GREED.
Ppl who do not share and properly distribute their own profits w/their own family (their workers/employees) would not consider any amount off their bloated fortune as anything other than expensive.
How many immoral decisions and boundaries have they already stepped over and erased from their conscience to get to that point that got them their golden throne on top of their mountain?
The world is blazing the alarms of economic collapse, of our democracy crumbling, of authoritarian rule, of mass oppression and suffering, of degradation of education, of WWIII, NUCLEAR/biological warfare, of climate change and devastating non reversible effects of it... (the ultimate destruction of the protection from the Sun’s killer radiation that our delicate ozone layer provides; the delicate oxygen cycle and production that’s literally a global effort for our Earth to produce, etc.)
Alarms are ringing out all over the world. If the elite class doesn’t get it together and do THE RIGHT THING or forced to contribute to society... IF the ppl are not protected and uplifted from all this corruption and oppression... IF we do not take immediate action to address climate change... there will be NO FUTURE to look forward to. There will be no exponential collective brain power to solve problems and innovate ideas.
We either walk TOGETHER into the future towards utopia or we shall all perish together in dystopia... until all life on this planet cease to be.
nice thought, but you are not quite right @shabassh on your first point. Free healthcare should be funded by federal deficit. No taxes are needed. What the wealthy elites hate about Single Payer Heathcare is that it is more democratic, that they will get equal treatment, and have to wait in line like everyone else. They cannot stand the thought of that. So it will be an expense to them only if they want to pay for a private hospital treatment, or cosmetic and elective surgeries and the like, not paid for by Medicare. But if you meant that the health insurance industry will lose out... then maybe you are correct, but insurance companies will find other ways to scalp the rich, by increasing premiums on elective surgeries, so they will not lose out entirely.
Unless the single payer monthly premium is, say, under $20 a month, or unless I manage to get a better job (always trying of course), I couldn't even afford it. I don't even earn enough to pay all shelter costs every month, and there are millions like me. MEDICARE FOR ALL is the only real solution.
@@audreymuzingo933 - M4A _is_ Single Payer. They're synonymous. The definition of single payer is simply that there is only one payer into the healthcare industry - specifically, the government. In that situation, the "premium" is a tax. And how those taxes are structured are far more likely to be progressive in nature than the predatory nature of current American HMO's.
One of the most profound and important speakers I've ever heard.
We are already a 3rd world country and have been moving this way a very long time. I'm 74. I've been watching.
Ana, please check out Andrew Yang and his #HumanityFirst platform. Thanks. #Yang2020 let's right the course.
Please see his book "The War on Normal People"
It’s been a long time coming
@@musicspinnerYangs ideas have been a theme in Science Fiction for many years. It's time to make them a reality. Imagine the progress humanity could make. Imagine what the strivers could make.
This guy has big brass ones. Good for him. And good for Google for even allowing these ideas within their walls to be heard.
Incredible that he said what he said AT Google. I felt awkward for the Google staff listening to this!
Apparently, they weren't posting the video for a while. He had to reach out to them to ask what's going on. They held onto it for a month.
Don't be too effusive with your google praise, since in an interview he did with The RSA, which you can see, he mentioned that talk and that Google wanted to "kill the talk" but that he and his team threatened them and they put it online.
Right. But remember the "No Evil in Google" slogan? Oh thats right.. they don't use that much anymore. Yeah, theres nothing corporations will not lie about.
Don't kid yourself....Google tried to censor this video by not publishing it on "Talks at Google" until word got out and pressure was put on them to release it.
This guy has absolutely nailed the issues of our society. They are easy to see but not always easy to elucidate. He is a brilliant speaker.
There is another issue when it comes to journalism and local news. We have that issue in my town and the demise of the local "newspaper" has created a serious problem for the "commons".
Local governments have caught on to the fact that they can keep people in the dark because no one is minding the store. So, suddenly our residents are finding out that high-rise condos are breaking ground literally next door to them. Trouble is, the shovels are in the ground and it is too late to make your voice heard. This single issue, combined with the fact that there is no investigative reporting has created a vipers nest of corruption that pretty much goes unchecked.
Now, Google has nothing to do with local news. And Google certainly didn't intentionally damage local news organizations. However, this is the collateral damage as smaller businesses are crushed by monopolies.
What town are you in? This is happening all over USA probably. Especially in NYC
Ruthmarie, you are right! Great observation.
Ruthmarie Hicks That sounds like the new Wild West: tyrannical Sheriffs ruling locally by lack of press.
Very good talk Mr. Giridhardas
"In the belly of the beast". Anand makes so much sense.
Anand's last name is pronounced Gear Da Das. Speaking Truth to the MOST Powerful. Got guts.
What a breath of fresh air! As a Social Social Studies major from Seattle who has immigrated to Vancouver BC Canada, the last decade, I LOVE YOU, Anand Giridharadas and Family! You are always welcome to come and speak to us in Vancouver BC!
That was an excellent talk. I observed how he uses "we" in most of the talk, and when he gets to the crux of the matter close to the conclusion, he switches to "you". I think that dynamic was well played. Also, his replies to the somewhat-tech-related questions (money and the internet, competition among tech companies) were great, though he's not a tech guy.
This feels like in the Russian Revolution the last time the peasants asked the monarchy for fairness and the monarchy laughed....we all know how that ended. I foresee a real revolution.
It will happen, I estimate, in about 20 years. And it will be nasty. Really, really nasty. Spanish civil war X 1000 nasty.
The program he describes of "fake change" and "gestures of the rich" is part of the program of control designed to keep the status quo.. the security apparatus and media on both sides of the left right paradigm are all designed to keep status quo by assimilating any real social movements and then spitting back out (giving society back) a watered down "controlled" version of the same social movement, in a way that feels like real change, but the real movement is thereby controlled and squashed. welcome to the real matrix, you are a human battery to capitalism and your corporate masters.
@@9000ck No it'll happen peacefully with Bernie Sanders who will attempt his best to change society.... resistance is futile
The Russian revolution was a coup de tat of international bankers...it was not about the royal family...the bankers used the a failing moment in a country and went in for the kill...Russia was and is a huge basket of natural resources...so..let study our American and world history...and let's see the devil in the details
Loose Cannon good analogy
Inviting that guy to give that speech at Google was the equivalent to when Will Smith docked with the mothership and uploaded the trojan horse in Independence Day. BOOM
"...was the EQUIVALENT to when..."
No--- it is Not "equivalent", unless your group of people have already expanded or re-defined the MEANING of he word, like some groups have already done with many other words. Most of those expansions in a negative damaging way.
I wonder if they fired everyone in the room lol
@@ggrthemostgodless8713 that's...how ye olde language works
Excellent talk! Excellent talk! Excellent talk! In many ways Anand's book reminded me of Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States." Zinn's book exposed us to the "real" history of our country vs the cartoonish version we were taught in school. Anand's book and this talk exposed the high tech winners at Google to the real truth of what their company and their industry has become in stark contrast to where it began and what its original intent may have been. The issue of what's good for the Company vs what's good for the "Country" is an important one and we are today on the threshold of yet another paradigm shift in which Companies benefit and Citizens suffer. To whit in a country where well paying jobs are limited to a handful of industries and endeavors, where folk's without a Master's degree in something are relegated to minimum wage jobs if lucky, and to homelessness if not, the last thing in the world we need, or should allow, is Artificial Intelligence replacement of workers. When I was in high school in the 1960s I was invited into an AP course entitled Government & Economics. The course was taught by an ex Macy's executive who had decided to stop wasting his life making money and switched careers in mid life to that of becoming a high school history teacher. One of the first lectures he gave pertained to the blessings produced by industrialization, automation, and high tech inroads into American life. He assured us that as a result of these efficient shifts in producing and distributing goods we were all going to be paid more money, and required to work fewer hours. Our main challenge, he assured us, was going to be coming up with things to do in our leisure time. When the lecture ended I raised my hand and when called upon said, "Let me guess Mr. ....... you believe in Santa and the Tooth Fairy. Because if you think for one moment that the owners of these companies are going to share the profits engendered by technological innovations with their workers you must!" The entire history of the industrial revolution can be summarized by saying that it has ended up concentrating wealth and power in the hands of the Winners, and everyone else be damned! When it comes to America today George Carlin said it best some years ago: "They call it the American Dream because you need to be asleep to believe it." Google employees, and other high tech workers better understand that they too are "replaceable" by the devices and technologies they mindlessly produce for their company. "Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee!" has never been truer than today! Finally the real question we should be asking is not whether government is good or bad. The question we should be asking is if our government is bad what do we need to do to make it good? As Anand rightfully points out a good government is all we have to rely upon in the age old battle between the haves and the have nots!
Google probably stopped reading after the first part of the title: "Winners take all"
Haha win/win
Thank you so much for speaking truth. Humanity over reputation. The greatest good!
Excellent talk!
Never seen a more subdued audience. Must be tough to look at yourself with honesty and introspection when you're a bro making photo sharing apps. great talk and hats off to you Anand
Faith in Humanity: 10% closer to being restored...
"The employees have the right to know what the company is doing at lobbying policy. " It is a suggestion that brings democracy into the companies, institutes. After all, people spend more than half of their time in the company business.
If a company is allowed to attend political activities. The employees and employers have to carry out those activities in a democratic way.
"When the rebel in the pickup truck ends up in the palace, you know you're in trouble if they keep wearing that beret... they never cross that threshold of understanding that they are now the establishment they were once fighting against."
He nailed it.
Thank you for this video. He is not only brilliant but also fiercely courageous to deliver this what could have been very ineffective speech due to its circumstance still powerfully. We need more intellects like him!
13:46 "I applaud whoever it was who invited me or who didn't read my book carefully when they invited me"
Exactly what I was thinking: they didn't know his topic. ie, they didn't read his book.
Amazing talk! Thanks to Anand and the audience/participants!
1. That joke shortly after 39:58 😆
2. Towards the end he speaks about the industries with the highest potential for improvement, health and education, yet according to Gardner/L2 (Scott Galloway) these are the next to be disrupted and disruption as we know by know comes at a high price...
3. Imho: The financial sector is a MASSIVE problem, far more than actually pointed out here.
Tough crowd. 40:00 was a legit funny joke.
I honestly think they didn't get it, I'm not specially dumb and I didn't get it either till I read your comment
I thought it was hilarious, but I think it made them uncomfortable because they know he's right lol
I read your comment and waited, it didn't disappoint.
That hit me like the Obama's "we're building Ironman" joke, was it tho ?
this guy has the most magnificent silver hair+stubble combo ever.
@ragusajr100 He doesn't say a single thing that isn't known to anyone who has worked at a large corporation....and his hair is a part of his "act". His work is unoriginal and he steals his main concept from Nassim Taleb and doesn't do nearly as good of a job at explaining these things. He is another boring journalist.
HealthyMealthy He write 2 great books before this one. He is an editor at large at TIMES and 25 plus years experience in journalism . Only idiots will say he stole ideas and is repetitive. What he is saying makes sense and important to many people. It’s a counter point.
@@AsitdyaDsr Only idiots would admire this guy. He hasn't done shit and has risked nothing. Journalists are professional frauds.
@@healthymealthy775 and what have you risked?
@@thetayterminator1436 From a micro level... everything.
Google does not pay any tax at all in Turkey although it earns huge amount of revenue from the advertisers located in Turkey. Google resists and reject to set up a branch in Turkey and force all the advertisers in Turkey to make the transactions over Google Ireland branch where it pays 2-3% tax. If Google would have a branch office in Turkey, it would pay 18% VAT and 20% income tax at the end of the fiscal year. But it pays NOTHING.
The Silicon Valley companies who claims that "we are making the world better place to live" and at the same time do everything to avoid paying taxes, then name themselves as philanthropists are trying to deceive the community. First fulfill your duty to the community, PAY YOUR TAX FROM EARNINGS, DO NOT FIND WAYS TO AVOID TAXES and then we will believe that these companies are sincere as Giridharadas emphasizes.
Why do people who have more than a billion dollars need more money?
When you understand Money = Power this makes sense. Greedy people should be called out publicly!
Because they did not find purposeful meaning in life.
I would ask, Why do people who have more than they need to live with need more money?
I think it is because people are rated on the amount of wealth. There is a public competition in the peer group. A person is seen, or even defined, ad being more successful if he owns more money. I'm not sure there is even anything else influencing the utility per wealth increase. (The rating is even with explicit personal association, the person is worth an amount of money, instead of it owns an amount of money)
It’s not about money, it’s about a “I know best” mentality and a craving of Power because you think you’re the most altruistic person in the room.
Wow! Man is this an eye opener or what. I am only here because this week (OCT 2019) Trever Noah did an interview with this gentleman.
Fantastic talk.
Great message! I walked out of a safe position in a solid government job because I was tired of being a whistleblower. Anand, you are right! I fought until I lost my health and visits to see my child. The sacrifice to fight for justice was taxing but worth it. The government is a miracle but we must reform government.
Wow, these google employees have amazing perspective and thoughtful questions. We know that you have the power and *capacity* to drive change in a way that top executives cant. With respect and solidarity for tech workers around the world.
Excellent talk. I would love to see an annual report of what positions my country has taken on my behalf this year, as well as making a look at how prior actions on my behalf have worked out. At a minimum.
As a single mom in a red state, I can't afford healthcare and don't qualify for Medicaid because my state is one of the 17 that rejects the Medicaid expansion of the ACA. I do work (nonstop) and it's still not enough to prevent all shutoffs and catastrophes of all sorts, but my state deems any more income than $179 a month to be "too much" to qualify for Medicaid from the ultra-low state taxes. That's right, after paying my total housing cost there should be plenty leftover out of 179 for a monthly healthcare premium, copays and deductibles, right? So, long story short, if I get cancer I WILL die and leave my daughter orphaned. And it's not out of the question; my Mama just died of it a few years ago. And poor people just die around me all the time. I've decided that if I did get cancer I would make a national spectacle of how I'm dying, in a way that erases any doubt about it being true but without identifying myself. Because even though I'd want to live, I wouldn't want some rich person making a spectacle of being the hero who pays for my chemotherapy, while thousands of other poor people die quietly of treatable illnesses. I am SICK of everything that is happening to Americans, quietly.
"I am SICK of everything that is happening to Americans, quietly"....I guess it happens quietly for a reason: it IS disgusting! I sincerely hope that the spectacle you speak off is not needed. Maybe start a crowdfunding and move with your daughter to Sweden, Norway, Holland -- or wherever you like -- where medicare is a right and poor people do not die all the time. I am Dutch, I can tell you, about 98% speaks English....
I'm right there with you. About the same circumstances as well. I just watched as this country killed my mother. A woman who worked hard all her life, gave everything to her family and when she needed decent care, was denied. I don't have much hope for my future being any different. Not once has my family, who've lived on this land for Millenia, been given even a small percentage back. How many times can we have everything we've worked for ripped away? It's far past time we start insisting on more. If my children are to have a half way decent life, we must demand change.
@@pergamonrecordings I couldn't afford to move to the house next door, much less Sweden, ha. And why should people crowdfund my move to Sweden, when I don't even have cancer (yet), what about the millions who are already desperately ill? My post was about ALL suffering Americans, we can't all move to Sweden and we can't all rely on people's willingness to Paypal help whenever we need it. Crowdfunding success stories are heartwarming but absolute flukes; what you don't see is all the crowdfund requests that get little attention and little response. It's just like I was talking about with a rich person paying for chemo if I needed it. --Crowdfunding is the kind of thing that helps keep disgusting stuff quiet (same also goes for church intervention, any kind of charity really).
I'm not saying there isn't a place for charity; there always has been and always will be. But people getting rescued by charity creates the illusion that anyone could, if only they asked, and that's simply not true. In any place, any culture that exists (or has existed) without a government safety net, there has never been enough help offered, to help enough people, enough to live in dignity, or even survive in many cases. People with plenty simply won't voluntarily give as much as they could, so they literally have to be forced. The Conservative American outlook is that all it takes to succeed is hard work, there's no such thing as disadvantage, only laziness, and anyone who is truly helpless should be able to get what they need from voluntary assistance in their communities, NOT taxation, and the richest entities get the biggest tax breaks, especially now.
@@hollybug-76542 I'm so sorry about your Mom. Mine did receive a decent amount of medical treatment because she was on Medicare and because of that she lived about 1.5 years longer than she would have without it. But my sister and I got quite a shock after her death; we knew she didn't have any money to leave us, only an older-model mobile home as the whole of her "estate" but we thought at least we would be able to sell it and have a few thousand bucks each, which would be hugely helpful to both of us. What we didn't know was that different states do Medicare differently, and in Iowa where our Mama lived, Medicare payments for nursing home stays (which she did in her final months) are LOANS. Children of deceased beneficiaries with nursing home Medicare debt are not required to repay out of pocket (thank God or we'd be beyond screwed), but the deceased's estate is accountable, up to the amount of debt, if possible. Long story short, they just snatched Mama's trailer like it was nothing (and it was, compared to the debt load, but to us it was everything). This happened right when Trump and the Republicans were passing the tax reform to make filthy-rich people pay lower taxes, and details about all the illegal thievery the Trump family gets away with were also coming out. I felt so much rage I didn't know what to do with it, still don't.
I laughed out loud when i saw this was a Google talk
How does that even happen
Thank you for speaking the truth, we on the bottom never reap the benefit of our labor. Actually, I said that I get tired of talking about wealth in this country when knowing some of us will never achieve it. Also, this is an intelligent man and his hair is beautiful.
So glad, Anand, that you are going into Google with these thoughts.
Re: the gentleman who posed the last question: I've got a slight gripe with the tale of "businesses grow big and old and inefficient and then they die". Take a company like Uber disrupting taxi businesses that are in a regulated space, pay social benefits and maybe have a little too inefficient an administration. When Uber comes in and puts the taxi company out of business, they don't do so because they have a slightly smaller overhead, but because they don't adhere to rules which might be there for a reason.
Similarly with Google: Efficiency is not always king. Many design decisions in government value fairness over efficiency. To then come in and claim "well, but we are more efficient" doesn't work. Trouble is, you have to work hard to find out whether a disruption stems from that pseudo-efficiency or "efficiency all things considered".
yeah that is was is so upsetting about Uber. But how do you implement those changes when an industry has safeguards. Where is the regulation for advancement.
Maybe it depends on how you define "efficiency". Americans tend to use it to mean making the most money in the shortest time. But we could go with a "job ecology" definition and say that business is most efficient which creates the most living wage jobs, or that business is most efficient that creates the least pollution.
Uber didn't disrupt taxis, but taxes.
I think taxis is a bad example because in some cities it was already a corrupt, insider network. In some cities, you literally have to spend in the neighborhood of a million dollars for a "license" to run a cab. Those aren't little guys getting shut out of the economy. Those are monied interests who are upset that someone is disrupting their racket.
Colby Butler preach!!!
Thank you for articulating so well what desperately needs to be acknowledged.
Thank you Anand, and God bless you!
So thoroughly enjoyed the probing questions and positions put forward by Anand that I've bought the book! Firm believer that we should always question things, challenge norms.
Here from the RSA interview. This man gives me hope.
Extraordinary generosity!!!!!! I find that hard to see. Minimum wage can't be raised. Can't provide real affordable health care, affordable quality education for our children, no pensions, no paid sick leave, no paid maternnity leave, no paid vacation, no job security, no affordable housing - extraordinary generosity, indeed.!!!
Thank you for this talk. I insist that these ideas go forward. Blessings to you and yours.
💪🏽very noble n courageous effort by Anand. The rank n file/proletariat have to rise up
google, more of *these* please...
His "hoarding" point got misunderstood by Trevor Noah when he was on the show. Trevor took it to mean merely not wanting to let go of excess wealth, and implied this was natural, that anyone in the audience would do the same thing. Not only did he miss the point that the amount of wealth the ultra-rich possess is SO excessive no average person could even imagine it; he also failed to consider the other half of what hoarding is, the compulsion to keep obtaining MORE of something, no matter how much excess is already accumulated, just because it's out there to be gotten and they cannot stand the idea of not getting it. So not only will some people refuse to give up any empty margarine containers from a house full of them; they will climb into a public dumpster to get another one, and it's the same thing with neurotic greed. ANYTHING for the slightest increase in profits, ANYTHING not to let go of the slightest bit of profits. Children going hungry, people dying of treatable illnesses, people turning to depraved or even violent acts out of desperation, people committing suicide suddenly or slowly......these are all things that the ultra-rich can accept, in fact, like a mountain of margarine containers, obscene wealth can obscure what's underneath. The person doesn't have to look at it; they can take a private jet over it, and any time it does demand attention, it can be treated like rats and roaches. Just build more prisons and warehouse all humanity that dares to get uppity. Oh and be sure the prisons are profitable too.
I agree but i see it as hoarding power and control, not money. Money is access to other resources. I think that's why people keep asking "how much do they need?!" because they think it's about goods or portfolios and it isn't AT ALL. It's about who has enough, relatively, to make the decisions
On smaller scales, like in state and local conflicts, smaller amounts of money are required to be the boss
dumb thicc wizard Certainly, but what do they want the power for, if not to maintain or increase wealth accumulation prowess.?
Well said!!!
The most important talk of our time. Thank you for sharing, Google, Anand.
Just read this guys book. One of the few that have really challenged my perspective and Ill aways be grateful for that
Bezos gives money away, does he get to claim a lot of that on tax. Is philanthropy just another way for the rich to decide who gets the tax dollars?
It's another massive public subsidy to the rich, and they still control what happens to the money, that Anand argues (& I agree), supporting them keeping the status quo of the "change."
YES.... if they didn't also do it destroy education, it would be a given. If something isn't universal and public, it has an alternate purpose and cannot succeed anyway. Just the way that any journalism that is not critical is PR.
Yes.
Yes it is tax deductible. You realise what he gives away is an absolute pittance compared to amazons tax avoidance. Theres a difference between choosing where a few million goes compared to govt deciding where billions should go.
Very good talk Mr. Giridhardass
LoL
this guy is pure gold. Glad I discovered him.
Great info. This needs to be talked about more in the mainstream.
We Collectively Accept our fascist Neoliberal status quo. The superwealthy are the biggest freeloaders in our society.
We need to Collectively force our currency issuing federal government to Balance our economy up front with dollars, targeting the federal budget to the bottom with a FEDERALLY GUARANTEED LIVING WAGE JOB PROGRAM to rebuild AMERICA and meet needs with essential public goods and services.
The Parasites at the top come off as philanthropic when they are actually nothing of the sort. Great video
Thank you very much for speaking truth. Humanity over reputation. Doing the greatest good.
Break up google, at google 😂
I'm very proud of Google for supporting self reflection, speaking truth to power, and free speech which is not in it's favour.
Spare us.
@S DTV Self reflection is a step in the right direction even if it does not result in action. For example, a person may actively think about being overweight and the negative health issues that go with it. Even if the person does not take any significant action towards solving the problem, at least they are aware of the issue. The old saying, the first step in solving a problem is admitting that you have one. The chances that an overweight person eventually takes action is going to be much higher if the person realizes and accepts he has a problem, then someone who thinks nothing of the matter or actually believes that being overweight is perfectly healthy. Of course, in the end, all the reflection in the world with no action, is still just no action.
Sending our prayers. Bless your heart.
lol, they know how iq works (only need to check avg searches)...the mass never watched this speach be sure of this :P
Gag me. They wanted to kill this talk and had to be arm twisted by the threat of embarrassment to actually allow it to be posted.
That was really great. Such an important discussion to have at Google.
The Power of Truth is immense. Anand talks about things that no one dares to talk about. In private most of us do, but rhetorically bring this out in the open is a welcome change.
Brilliant, compassionate, courageous, responsible, humane, and the conscience of what is left of civilized society
Just wow. Did not expect it to be SO GOOD. This guy is talking about the real stuff. But, it's only the starting. It's not easy to get people to give up the comforts they are used to so that other humans can get the necessities. At least everyone can realise that Win Win is a selfish choice we all make everyday. It's funny to see how we make these stories up to feel good.
This guy knows what's up. He's like Noam Chomsky.
Too bad there was a busy pcafeteria next door
'The piss down my back effect' has been working really well for 40 years.
Kudos to Larry & Sergey for having this guy speak. Self-reflection is good.
apparently google actually didn't want to put this talk up until anand intervened. says alot. (he reveals this in his world's affairs talk)
Genius!!! Lord where has this man been all my life?!
"The solutions we have don't really fit the realities we have created." @ 54:17
58:15
"I don't mind getting yelled at"
"That's an important asset in making change."
I was lucky enough to see Anand's RSA Talk first, then his Aspen Institute "wilting world" speech. I came here to hear his anti-trust comment about Google being re-formed into 2 companies: Goo & Gle. I guess it must've been edited out before google relinquished and FINALLY posted it for "public consumption".
"There's a great danger in being a Goliath who thinks they are a David." beautifully said!
Anand is one of my heroes. He says the uncomfortable things we're not supposed to notice as neoliberalism steps to its expiration date.
In Finland, education is equally funded in the poorest neighborhoods as the richest.
finland is a small inferior country. stop making idiotic comparisons.
culture04dc I’m not comparing Finland to anyone. I’m stating a fact.
It’s seems you have a problem with their success in education.
Brilliant. This guy is going to get the Pullitzer and the Nobel one of these days
i’m blown away
Now all you need a podcast.
Great talk and ideas
I wonder why more people are not talking about this stuff.
Tons talking about this stuff. You just have to look outside corporate cable news. Shocker...
Well truthfully. Our education and grads in America are abysmal. Our younger generations aren't being educated adequately enough to even be conscience of these issues.
There wasn't much awareness of it. But things started to turn since the last two years. It's enormously complex actually.
@sharatdotinfo, i think more people are not talking about this or the issues he is bringing up, because we all know or feel we know what is going on, but it makes us uncomfortable and powerless to do anything about it. I liken it to a battered woman in a small town, the whole town knows the husband is beating his wife, but to them they are powerless to do anything about it, i believe it is that same principle.
Thoughtful ,Powerful ,inspiring!!!
I can't have this conversation. Too much anger and animosity. We need to see more of the people who can.
Great work to all.
Overall great talk. hope this leads us into a phase 2 of the technology revolution towards building more socially responsible tech products and services.
You are SO good!
ok, i might wanna comment on something substantial but, "yes". great opener anand.
every word of his is so relative to my country on unequal distribution of economy
I could see him running for office some day
Absolutly, hope so.
Has my vote.
I will definitely vote for him but, the system we live in won't let him run for the office.
he's good-looking sure, but doesn't have the charisma to be a politician
I could see him running FROM office every day!
Thank you
13:25 Elites be like: What if we helped 4 minority kids get into Yale?
Love this brother
I wonder why Anand was not invited to speak at Facebook?
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST you made sense man!!!!!!!!!!!!! more power to you, I generally hate equality yelling people but your points are dead right and I'm gonna read your book.
You brave man...I adore you.
wow, this man has such a wide variety of vocabulary. Impressive 👏