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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Corporate elites have reshaped social progress to serve their own interests.
Chapter 3: Elites’ win-win mantra allows them to seem to better the world while still profiting from persistent, systemic inequality in practice.
Chapter 4: Powerful people deny their power, and that helps them remain in control.
Chapter 5: Elites depend on thought leaders to maintain their power and firmly preserve the status quo.
Chapter 6: When business methods of problem-solving dominate, social issues get ignored.
Chapter 7: Wealthy people cleverly use philanthropy to conceal underlying injustice at the root of their wealth.
Chapter 8: The world is split between elites profiting from global capitalism and those who are still missing out on its rewards.
Description
Winners Take All (2019) reveals the tricks and strategies used by global elites to justify preserving the status quo. It explores the ways that their endeavors to make the world a better place in fact serve to keep existing injustices and inequalities in place. And it shows how the language of change hides the role of the rich and powerful in causing the very problems they’re aiming to solve.
Who Should Listen
- Global citizens concerned about social justice
- Everyone who wants to understand how the rich and powerful run the world
- Plutocrats ready to do a little soul searching