I think the winners of our age knowing
the inequality data knowing from Oxfam
that 82 percent of new wealth generated
in 2017 went to the global 1% knowing
all of that have been determined to help
to change to make a difference that's
why you see every banks got an impact
investment fund every Silicon Valley
business claims it's a humanitarian
project and yet what I think in general
the winners of orange are unwilling to
do is get off the man back they're not
willing to pay higher taxes or just stop
avoiding them if they're not willing to
let go of their double-dutch with an IRS
sandwich tax maneuver they all use
they're not willing to pay people more
to do their jobs they're not willing to
stop lobbying austerity and the kinds of
public policies that we know are gonna
hurt people but benefit financial elites
they're not willing to actually commit
to the communities that have made them
as as companies and which they can now
effortlessly abandon by sourcing here
and selling there what does it look like
to imagine the kind of change that would
involve the winners of our age stepping
off that guys back or being made you
step off that guys back win-win sounds
so great right because it's like taking
one victory and then just doubling it
what could be wrong with doing well by
doing good what could be wrong with all
these kind of philanthropy capitalism
double bottom line triple bottom line
the win-win takes a situation a concept
that's actually derived from the world
of trade like you have ice cream I have
money I want ice cream you want money
and we do a deal and in that narrow case
that actually is a win-win that's
exchange that's marketing that's that's
correct use of win-win what has happened
is that this concept of the win-win has
been kind of jammed into the sphere of
social change and making the world
better and actually solving our biggest
public problems where it has no business
an ice cream trade is actual win-win
situation feminism is not a win-win
problem a lot of men are gonna have to
lose a lot of power and privilege and
the right to grope people at the office
and
have positions that they're mediocrity
did not actually entitle them to for
that revolution to succeed when
everything is couched as a win-win what
you are really saying is that the kinds
of social change that actually cost the
winner something are rolled out what
you're really saying is the best kind of
solutions don't ask anybody to get off
anybody's back what you're really saying
is yeah tell women the problem is their
posture they should lean forward and
raise their hand more that way we don't
have to actually pay them equally
because that would hurt shareholder
value what you're really saying is yeah
let's have charter schools and you know
let's have Mark Zuckerberg give some
money to a school because what you
really don't want to do in the United
States I know this is a lien here is end
the unbelievably barbaric system we have
a funding public education by your local
property taxes so basically the nicer
your house the better the education you
get in America we don't want to end that
so what the winners of our age do is get
out in front of it by saying no no I I
recognize the desire for more equity in
education system let's not do higher
taxes of public education but let's do
this new thing that they're promoting in
Silicon Valley where Silicon Valley
companies pay for you to go to college
and then you pay them a percentage of
your income which used to be called
taxation but is now down as an app only
for the luckiest students with the
highest likelihood of repayment and so I
believe that this win-win thing although
it sounds so good is actually part of
the privatization of the solution of
public problems
I don't think all problems are need to
be solved by the public but when you
look at a problem like social mobility
like the empowerment of women like what
trade has done to communities in this
country and the anger that it is aroused
those are the kinds of problems that
cannot be solved by really clever
businesses or really fun apps or rich
people who happen to be feeling generous
on a particular day those are the kind
of problems we can only solve together
and those kinds of solutions have been
discredited by the fantasy of the
win-win that allows the winners to keep
standing on people's backs