Could Billionaires Solve Global Poverty?

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 26, 2019

Then, Time editor at large, Anand Giridharadas, discusses whether billionaires can put an end to global poverty if they had the will to do so, and talks about his recent book, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World (Knopf, 2018).

"The problem is that for all of those extraordinary of elite efforts to change the world, we are stuck with the unavoidable fact that this has been an age of increased power concentration and wealth concentration year by year for the last 40 years," says @AnandWrites.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) April 26, 2019

"Even if you made your money honorably, the reason you still have all that money is we have a taxation system that has hugely prioritized your ability to make + keep an enormous amount at the expense of common institutions that allow people to live a decent life," @AnandWrites.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) April 26, 2019

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