Season 2: Philanthropy vs. Democracy
Future Perfect
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.5 • 622 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2019
⏱️ 1 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | When a billionaire like Mark Zuckerberg announces he's going to give a huge gift to public schools. |
| 0:07.0 | $100 million. |
| 0:09.0 | Normally, we celebrate. |
| 0:14.0 | But this season, Unvox's Future Perfect. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm the skunk in the room always. |
| 0:21.5 | I'm the guy who says, I don't think this is a good idea. |
| 0:24.2 | It's an anti-democratic force. |
| 0:26.9 | We're looking at all the different ways that philanthropy clashes with democracy. |
| 0:32.3 | We'll tell you stories about big donors. |
| 0:35.4 | One day she was looking over her trust and she thought, nah, and she |
| 0:39.3 | crossed out the word indigent and so just left that money for dogs. We'll tell you about the power |
| 0:44.6 | that those big donors wield. It was almost like she and Ken were playing SimCity. In the ways that |
| 0:50.4 | their philanthropy shapes our lives. Lower wages for everybody. |
| 0:54.7 | Two children and no more. |
| 0:56.8 | Well, we know what's happened to the Federalist Society over the last 35 years. |
| 1:02.2 | Philanthropy versus Democracy, this season on Future Perfect. |
| 1:06.8 | Subscribe for free on Apple Podcasts or in your favorite podcast app by tapping the link in the show notes. |
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