I believe business is the greatest platform for change.

I believe that CEOs really have an opportunity using their businesses to improve society.

And that could be directly making a commentary to politicians or building great products

or making sure that their companies are net zero.

I think in all of those cases, business are improving the state of the world.

That's Mark Benioff, billionaire CEO of the Cloud Computing Company, Sales Force,

speaking in an interview last year shown at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Benioff is an evangelist for a concept known as stakeholder capitalism.

The notion that corporate executives have an obligation to not just do what's best for its shareholders,

the folks who bought the stock and reaped the dividends, but for all its stakeholders,

including the company's workers, its consumers, its suppliers, and more broadly society at large.

It's positioned Benioff as that most admirable of characters at the annual Davos retreat.

A progressive CEO committed to ending climate change, promoting diversity,

and otherwise making the world a better place.

But according to Peter Goodman, the New York Times Global Economic Correspondent,

an author of the new book Davos Man, How the Billionaires Devoured the World,

it's all a charade. Billionaires like Benioff fly off to the Swiss retreat every year on their private jets,

hobnob with their fellow billionaires at fancy cocktail parties thrown by giant consulting firms,

attend meditation seminars, and otherwise stroke themselves on their virtue and brilliance.

All the while, pushing and helping to shape a world economic order,

that, while making all of them much richer, has exacerbated world poverty,

thrown millions at a work, and contributed to new levels of global inequality.

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