Can Billionaire save the world?

A non-Jeraharadas will be here to discuss his new book, Winners Take All.

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Kim Brooks will join us to talk about small animals, parenthood in the age of fear.

Plus we'll talk about what we and the wider world are reading.

This is the Book of You podcast from The New York Times.

I'm Pamela Paul.

A non-Jeraharadas joins us now.

He is the author of The True American and India Calling and his latest book,

reviewed on our cover this week, is Winners Take All, the Elite Shared of changing the world.

A non-thanks for being here.

Thank you for having me.

Let's start with the obvious question. Who are the winners?

The winners are the global plutocratic superclass that is on the happy end of an age of extreme

inequality and many of whom have realized that they are living in an age not only of extreme

inequality but also of unsustainable anger and social dislocation and political chaos

and have tried to do something about it.

My book is about what they have tried to do, which is essentially to quote unquote change

the world and make a difference on some of these issues in ways that preserve the social

structure that keeps them on top.

Before we go into exactly who they are, because I want names, do they perceive in general

or perhaps some of them that they might be responsible for some of that extreme anger

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