“They wanted a guarantee because they were so confident in what they didn’t deserve”

Anand Giridharadas. Always brilliant. Always eye-opening.

@monarchhenchman2835

5 жыл бұрын

Andrew Murphy this guy always freaks me the fuck out lol

@Zorazora1234

5 жыл бұрын

Cornel West has talked about this for years... all the quotas that they give slots to....and they're NOT Affirmation Action slots..

@esthermalkin8924

5 жыл бұрын

Love this guy!

George Carlin said it best. "It's a big club & your not in it".

@SuperAstimegoesby

3 жыл бұрын

And i glad that Im not in it! ✊🏽

who's children can afford an unpaid internship at some big business in downtown Manhattan and afford an apartment in downtown Manhattan. financial segregation has always existed only the wealthiest children can afford those opportunities.

@65minimom

5 жыл бұрын

jason618 dirtier than ever now

@MM-nh8ez

5 жыл бұрын

This is true in the arts as well.

@hollywoodartchick9740

5 жыл бұрын

Especially in the arts - it takes a huge amount of staying power to hang in while you get from doing things for "exposure" to making money in creative fields, and if you are not rich, you can literally damage your health trying to basically work survival gigs while you do promotional and speculative art in hopes that you can get a paid gig doing your art later. @@MM-nh8ez

@MM-nh8ez

5 жыл бұрын

@@hollywoodartchick9740 Yep. And people know they can take advantage of creatives while they try to make their portfolio or whatever, so they will get as much free work out of them as possible. It's 10,000x easier if you are rich and know you'll never have to worry about eating, housing, etc. And having money tends to translate to having connections, which is how people get exposure... so yeah, you find 100 rich people in the arts for every 1 who isn't.

@zaprowsdower7278

5 жыл бұрын

Hollywood Art Chick, starving artist, can confirm. Best part tho, you have plenty of equipment to sell when you need rent money...

Anand is a beast! Love the dude

Glad Anand Giridharadas is getting some time on news shows. He's very articulate, knowledgeable and passionate about this topic. Stunning and shocking points he's making. Kudos to him.

@elsagrace3893

5 жыл бұрын

All Will Be Well what are Kudos? And why at him?

I never miss an Anand Giridharadas interview!! keep goin' bro!!

This guy is excellent! Said the truth!

"Affluenza" should be a real word in our current oligarchy......

Democracy Now does a tremendous world service with discussions like this, thank God it exists!

When you have money in politics, the politics change, to money!

Love this guy

Democracy Now does it again. Give them ALL the awards please...or right, I forgot, it's not a meritocracy!

George Carlin said it best: "The Game Is Rigged on Behalf of The Big Club..."

@mizzypoo4827

5 жыл бұрын

USA never be a Socialist country, said Trump.. He's honest to a fault. lowly paid voters every 4 years gets the chance to flip the coin, for either Governing Party , its just for continuation to carry on regardless. Trump is right ..ITS RIGGED for him & rigged for the for Filthy Rich 1%.

@01147762

5 жыл бұрын

"its a big club...and you're not in it!"- George Carlin

@TheRealLucifer_Morningstar

5 жыл бұрын

@@mizzypoo4827 It's socialism for the uber wealthy and rugged capitalism for everyone else.

@BrytheP

5 жыл бұрын

..."And you (we) ain't in it!...." ;)

@Nomo_Popo

5 жыл бұрын

AND YOU AIN'T INNIT

Love hearing this guy talk about these issues. I should get his book.

@rnalamo47

5 жыл бұрын

I m very happy that they had copies available at my public library and I have now read about one third. Jaw dropping.

Go Anand! Buying your book now.

@Nzp6959

5 жыл бұрын

kiskeacity omg me too..just paid for the E-book..Weekend binge-reading

This man is brilliant!

If I could get 10% of his eloquence , I would be so happy. this guy is brilliant..

The scandal really does nothing to address the two tier justice system.

Hence: there is a separate EVERYTHING for the oligarchs.

@MM-nh8ez

5 жыл бұрын

Seperate planet is their next goal.

@AdultThirdCultureKid1971

5 жыл бұрын

rick fucci Separate and unequal.

Much respect for this man, one of the very few truth speakers as intelligent as he is.

Giriharadas does an amazing job outlining this paradoxical conundrum, engineered by the rich and powerful.

So happy to see this shit finally hitting the fan.

Nah, no red carpet footage. Show police kicking in the door, the perp walk and mugshots like they do to us.

@Windband1

5 жыл бұрын

+1

@zaprowsdower7278

5 жыл бұрын

Rasheed Barnes you walk down a dangerous road once you start saying "us." Try to not make your fellow citizens 'others.'

@RasheedBarnes

5 жыл бұрын

@@zaprowsdower7278 I grew up on that road.

@zaprowsdower7278

5 жыл бұрын

Rasheed Barnes Your inability to move past your basis is a weakness not a strength. Don't get that confused. Because you know, no one is born a racist. They must be tought. Thus, should the racist glorify their upbring, they will never see past their....

@Democracy Now ~ we appreciate and Love you!! 💜💙💛

Excellent breakdown by Anand! I didn't realize how the tax fraud multiplies 3X over as the money is circulated through the various nonprofits. So, ultimately, WE are the ones who end up paying for these bribes through higher taxes. UNACCEPTABLE.

He's right about this being a biopsy. This is incredibly common at non elite universities too.

@Dietzbeatz

5 жыл бұрын

Go Peace ABSOLUTELY!!!!!

@tomitstube

5 жыл бұрын

well, college boards have been replaced with corporate boards. the bottom line is all that they worry about. education is secondary.

@65minimom

5 жыл бұрын

Go Peace silly why would anyone pay to go to 3rd rate school?

@65minimom

5 жыл бұрын

Blair off topic

Think any of these rich parents will spend any time in jail for this? I seriously doubt it.

Your talking about something that has been around for ever and it will never change

@zaprowsdower7278

5 жыл бұрын

Eddy Heginbottom not with that attitude

He’s on point

@Democracy Now ~ @Anand Giridharadas:⤵️ Enough said!! No one can dispute this!! 👏👏👏👏👏 💜💙💛

Excellent Interview!

It upsets me bc I feel this is why education and technical advances have staggered bc people are buying their places instead of truly talented individuals taking their rightful place.

It's not ABOUT the kids, it's all about PARENTAL ego-gratification.

Dig it, BRATS being BRATS!

This guy is brilliant.

Love that guy!

Anand. Good analysis and good book. Pick a candidate. How about Bernie Sanders. Lets make change happen. Support a true progressive candidate, not a regular corporate Democrat. Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren. Beto is dull. Hopefully being at Time magazine won't prevent you from doing the right thing.

@theresewalters1696

5 жыл бұрын

Tulsi Gabbard 2020

Man I love this guy Anand!!!!

love this Anand guy!

Why did it take this long for someone to reveal the structure that allows this mechanism to be abused by the rich? Do those experts in the know of social structures not realize that it must be revealed for justice, for the education of every citizen so they could be informed?

@GreenOrchid9

5 жыл бұрын

Why do they have secret society, country clubs, golf clubs, frAternity etc?💣😨

Anand is simply a great and charismatic speaker with an incredible powerful message about the insanity within this country.

Things have tipped too far in only one direction now. Something is going to be on the horizon, and it won't be pretty. This kind of privilege needs to end.

"Impact Investment" after they CAUSED the impact and destroyed!

The upgrade is called flying private, ie. your own jet.

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💯

I'm really not comfortable, regardless of how well intentioned, with perpetuating the destructive myth that federal taxes pay for spending.

Love this author!!

Democracy Now! Why are you spending minutes showing Lori Loughlin. Where are the faces and names of the others who were indicted. Show them all. Shame them all.

Great discussion.

The country is out of control.

Awesome reporting and commentary by Anand. This scandal will hopefully rip wide open the seams of a wealthy society and expose what lies beneath for all to see. I think the average person is paying more attention because celebrities are involved. Whatever it takes to shine a light on the issues.

I just want to know who is shocked by this? This has gone on for ever we just don’t want to see the truth so we look away

Anand I have a 12 years old honors student gifted and talented, in NYC, I hope she gets into ivy league now!

Anand, Rutger Bregman, Greta Thunberg...my new heroes.

Great interview...

Insightful.

Excellent

Ah he is brilliant .I will read his book .Thank you DNow

GOOD DISCUSSION.

Brilliant

the schools that participated in these bribe arrangements need to be charged with fraud. big time. everyone who graduates from these schools has standing to sue in court. and many who were rejected in the application process also have standing. how many people is this?

So great that you're calling out this scandal on academia and entertainers. Humorous that Anand Giridharadas lay the responsibility at the feet of the chief of the executive branch of the federal government.

love him. on point . end of Empire .

Meritocracy is a sham.

Designer parents want designer children. So sad

Wow this really makes me angery. I know not all the wealthy do this but most do and we need to take back our country from this oligarchy.

Life is not fair, but people should be.

Meritocracy is a joke

“The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine” - George Bernard Shaw

I want to see Anand in the same room with Rutger Bregman. That would be a fascinating conversation. (I also want to know what he asks the barber. "Give me the Dragonball Z?" The hair's like Don King but hipper).

Wow. This is more insidious the more you know. Parents that struggle, working multiple jobs...then getting rejected by the same ones who are taking jobs. All these guilty universities must be made to go non-profit, free education is one way to equalize access.

COLLEGES KNOW THIS CAN NO BE OVERLOOKED

Still remembered 737 And regime change in Venezuela Just saying .

@pohakumana4288

5 жыл бұрын

Yemen?

Lori Laughlin was in one show full house and it made billions of dollars. I don't think she's a star anymore. Any comments?

@johnw8984

5 жыл бұрын

Josh Dittel she made Millions not billions her old man's worth billions he's a clothing designer. Another week this will all go away who really gives a f*** anyone who doesn't think this was going on is f****** stupid. The sad part is they don't pay their fair share in taxes so other kids who don't have a chance in hell can go to some type of school and maybe make a go of it.

@nicolelove2501

5 жыл бұрын

🎼🎵money can't buy me Love, Love, it can't buy me Love🎶🎶 Money can't buy her morals; neither honesty/integrity; nor knowledge; nor a conscience of a sound mind/peaceful mind and good rest a night; nor can a person spend enough money to make one's poop smell like roses; nor can it buy her/their way "out of" jail/prison (which is a whole 'nother story of💲💵💸💵💸💵💰💰). Their goose is cooked.....baked, fried and butter-flied! I perceive that wealth doesn't really satisfy or fulfill the affluent, and it surely 🎼🎵"can't buy [them] Love🎶🎶." The wealthy steadily have a voracious appetite for more, and more wealth......like they're trying to fill a bottomless pit with a bulldozer, while those who witness it, cannot see where the fulfillment is going......as the wealthy who trust in their riches and "uplifted in their own hearts" [arrogant, prideful, boastful, and insensitive] ~ becomes pierced with many sorrows. ✔1 Timothy 6:10 (KJV) [10] For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Greed is never satisfied, it's a continual thing.........

Bringing down the house!

Not2sound thirsty but he's so attractive + intelligent. Just a perfect guy☺️

They have failed as parents.

Anand be rock'n this shit!

It just an obvious material barrier. You need money to go anywhere and rich see wealth as spectrum of quality and if you low on the spectrum you should be obedient to those that are higher wealth because they think they have a divine right of capital. Inequality is a deliberate barrier to maintaining power and opportunity.

Okay..I'm convinced. This Giridharada guy is a real genius. One of the first components of his analysis was to examine the motivations and methodologies of the criminal mastermind behind the whole conspiracy. Usually when you talk to leftists about motivation and incentivization they just give you a blank stare.

Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That's how it goes Everybody knows....... Leonard Cohen

Pi 3.4...thanks Amy and Anand😲😨🔥🎯

I'm curious as to why THIS specific incident of nepotism is being made such a public example?

@j.baldwinwasagenius...7575

5 жыл бұрын

The tax fraud, misuse of disability claims by the students, and the gaming of NCAA rules.

The misuse of power by the 'wealthy and powerful' is hardly exclusive to Capitalism, let alone limited to the US. Yet to hear about concrete alternatives to solve the aforementioned problems.

“Impact Investing Impresario”!

And who’s not surprised

I laud Mr. Giridharadas' expose of the privilege of privilege. I've not read his book, "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World", however, I wonder if his critique of privilege extends to the entitlements enjoyed by his fellows at the Aspen Institute including the likes of Madeline Albright, Condoleeza Rice, Her Majesty Queen Noor, and Henry Kissinger. The Aspen Institute's Board of Trustees reads like a telephone book of privilege. Let's also consider that "freedom" and "liberty" are synonyms for "privilege". If we believe G.W. Bush, al-Qaeda hates the us for America's "privilege".

Hahahahaha So TRUE about Bono the "good doer"... Brilliant analysis of everything that's messed up with this world.

At my University they had a workaround when it comes to this kind of corruption. Intentional or otherwise. Oh...we'll let you in and thanks for the big fat check. But our University's finances are organized such that in order to balance the books we calculate a large percentage of you will drop out because you're kinda stupid and unmotivated. When I was in English 101 the prof handed everyone their first essays back that they wrote in University and said, "I take my responsibilities as an undergraduate professor seriously. So I personally read and mark everyone my students essays. I don't hand them off to a T.A. And after reading these essays my first question is (long pause and perplexed look)....What are you people doing here?"

The future. Boutique fraud.

Why even bother sending the brats to college; cheaper to buy them each a couple of fake Ph.d's and be done with it.

Im happy and hopeful that Noam Chomsky has successors that are loud and tell the truth aggressively.

One of the benefits of meritocracy is that your nation puts out World leading players. The current system, I would say, contributed to the falling test scores, economic standing, moral standing of the US. All those jokes about Asian kids always doing homework, ALSO apply to kids actually in Asia. Should we not build up our public schools and then place deserving kids from the Rustbelt, Appalachia, the Ghettos & Barrios into leadership training institutions? That is the only way I see to MAGA, not powdering over a corrupt system.

I think Lori Loughlin's husband isn't mentioned as much just because most people don't know who he is, but most people, especially those born in or after the late 1970s, knows who Aunt Becky is.

Several years ago, I taught fourth grade at a charter school in DC. I had a little disobedient, disruptive, arrogant little boy in my class. L call him Joe. Joe really thought that he was better than the other students. For example, he would tease kids about their lunches, clothes and their academic ability. Sometimes, Joe would jump the line in front of a physically challenged student. And, when students gave wrong answers Joe would embarrass them by making derogatory comments. Joe was slightly above some students in some areas. But, not enough to write home about because he was tutored daily. One day Joe answered a question wrong and another boy berated him the same way he had done to other students for months. This time, the whole class participated joined in by laughing and making mean remarks. Joe boohooed. He cried for at least 30 min. The next day his father came to see me and, blamed me for the whole incident. I explained why the incident occurred. His father ignored his son's participation. He left angry. He said that his son was sensitive and, that if it happened again he would whole me responsible. I lost my cool. I told him that I held him responsible for raising a disobedient insensitive spoil brat. His father became irate and reported me to the principal. The principal's attitude toward me changed. Afterwards, Joe's father blamed his son's low grades on my method of teaching even though other students made As and Bs. The principle tried to convince me to make all kinds of exceptions for this kids grades and behaviors. One day, one of the teachers pulled me aside. She told me "you have to be very very care how you handle Joe. I replied "I treat him the same as I do other students. She said "I know. But, several teachers are not here anymore because of his father. His father donates large sums of money to the school each year. And, he wants everyone to treat Joe special. They want you to pass him even when he fails. I just don't want you to get into trouble". I found out later that Joe had failed several times in DC public schools. Then, his father took enrolled him in the charter school so he could buy his way through ELEMENTARY school. Already as a fourth grader, Joe (and his father) are not well liked. I have never met a black man that arrogant in my life. Even as an oppressed black man he thought that he was entitled because of his money.

Gee! WHY NOT LEGALIZE ARMED ROBBERY (JUST TO LEVEL THE pLAYING FIELD)?

In Utopia alone, nepotism does not exist. Here, in the REAL world, we are subjected to the human weakness; overwhelming desire to advance yourself and therefore, your dear ones. The western capitalist system allows a voice to judge it’s failings. Something you will appreciate once you have lived under any other system, with its tyranny.

These parents need to go to PRISON!!! They have now made a mockery of the education system. They have stolen some poor children’s chance of getting into the elite school of their dreams because they cannot afford the tuition. Using someone’s sport spot is horrendous. I guess I assumed rich peoples children were legitimately smart because they went to excellent elementary, junior high and high school. They have money for tutors so they MUST be smart. Well now I am seeing mediocrity is the standard for many. This MUST be taken seriously!!! A black mother was sent to jail for using her parents address to get her child into a better school because the school in her district was horrible. If she went to jail, this judge better make sure all of them get time in jail.