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🗓️ 3 November 2018
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Ralph welcomes journalist and author, Anand Giridharadas to talk about his book, “Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World,” which argues that rich “do-gooders” don’t really want to change the system that made them rich.
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0:00.0 | From the K-P-F-K studios in Southern California, |
0:03.6 | it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. |
0:05.6 | Stand up, stand up. |
0:07.8 | You've been sitting great to long. |
0:10.3 | When you mentioned the Gates money, I think one of the things that a lot of those folks don't realize is that they've done a lot of great work dep provincializing us in this country. |
0:24.5 | They have given to Africa and done tremendous work in many African countries and they've given around |
0:29.9 | the world. However, I think one of the things we're realizing under Orange Mussolini is that |
0:36.6 | when America is rotting within, when you have so many people in this country convinced that this society is rigged |
0:45.9 | and not working for them. |
0:47.6 | You actually end up electing a president who shatters the entire global order that all those African countries and countries |
0:56.1 | around the world have to live in. |
0:57.8 | And I think there is a case to be made that those African countries that Gates and Buffett and others have helped |
1:04.6 | would actually be in better shape if some of that philanthropy had not happened but |
1:09.1 | we also weren't living in the Trump era because the Trump era is tearing up the entire global order that |
1:15.8 | those countries hugely depend on for peace, stability, security, prosperity. |
1:21.0 | So I think some of those folks who've done an amazing job giving money overseas need to be much more invested in making sure we're not failing here at home because when we fail here at home in America, the whole world suffers. |
1:33.0 | Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. |
1:35.5 | My name is Steve Scrovan, along with my co-host David |
1:38.6 | Feldman, and I understand David this past week, |
1:41.3 | you were down in Texas with Triumph the Insult Comic Dog talking to |
1:45.6 | Ted Cruz and Beto O'Rourke. Yes I got to see Ted Cruz and interesting thing |
1:50.3 | he went to Princeton undergrad and Harvard Law School that's a toxic brew. |
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