Monday, August 19, 2013

How Billionaire 'Philanthropy' Is Fueling Inequality and Helping To Destroy the Country | Alternet

How Billionaire 'Philanthropy' Is Fueling Inequality and Helping To Destroy the Country | Alternet
"A closer look at how the world’s wealthiest are choosing to give away their money provides clues. While pretending to fix inequality, contemporary philanthropy’s actual role has been to strengthen the arrangements that make gross inequality possible in the first place. It has become a weapon in the class warfare of the 1%, the carrot to win people over to their ideology complementing the stick of political spending to coerce them into the same."