Anand Giridharadas: Should Billionaires Exist?

Another brilliant interview with Anand Giridharadas. Anand describes how over the past 30-40 years our government and culture have been "practicing a social model that is billionaire friendly first" — a model that embodies the belief system that "the best society is achieved by leaving billionaires alone." He goes on to illuminate the deadly narratives in which the most wealthy, the .1%, have "reinvented themselves as the solution to the problems that they have caused,"  how "a referendum on capitalism" is a very positive and necessary thing to be occurring within the Democratic Party establishment and our nation as a whole, and how "a lot of these huge and more sweeping policies [of Sanders and Warren] are more patriotic." Worth listening to and considering deeply what he speaks to in this interview. I also haven't purchased Anand Giridharadas' book Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, but plan to. — Molly

Are billionaires such as Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates the American Dream personified? Do they reflect a healthy economy? Or, as Senator Bernie Sanders has said, should billionaires not exist in the first place? Anand Giridharadas, Time magazine editor-at-large and author of "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World," discusses why he agrees with Sanders. As well, he gives his take on the Democratic hopefuls and whether or not any one of them can beat Donald Trump.