Ashes Ashes14 Feb 2019

Ep 61 – Owning Change

Episode 61 - "Owning Change"

In an age of global disparity and inequity, billionaire philanthropists (dead and alive) are stepping up to the plate with powerful foundations and acts of charitable giving to solve some of the world's greatest challenges. But how much faith should we place in the hands of individuals with concentrated wealth and power? And if we take a step back to examine the broader system in which these individual philanthrocapitalists function, do we find any contradictions between wealth doled out and the process of accumulating it? Further, despite some of the good that we perceive directly stemming from philanthropic efforts, what are some of the hidden motivations behind these efforts that ultimately seek to deepen the same structures that produced the problems in the first place which philanthropy purports to solve?

Chapters

04:44 The Man Who Wrote the Gospel
40:44 Philanthropy and Celebrity
48:11 The Larger System
54:12 Just How Rich?
1:03:04 "How philanthropy shapes foreign policy, civil rights, and healthcare"
1:20:20 Taxes and Giving
1:30:36 What Can We Do?

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