Sunday Morning Bobblehead Thread

Anand Giridharadas on Democracy Now

If there is one positive that may come from the wreckage that is the Trump administration, it may be the destruction of the notion that wealth somehow confers greater intelligence or admirable traits. Howard Schultz doesn't have any better grasp on how to run this country because he opened a bunch of overpriced and over-roasted coffee shops. Jeff Bezos isn't a better human being because he hangs out with Bono and has built an online retail establishment that has put actual brick and mortar bookstores out of business (there are literally NO bookstores within 15 miles of my home). Mark Zuckerberg isn't some genius because he figured out a way to commodify a fratboy application of rating co-eds at Harvard. Mossimo Giannulli isn't some impressive success story against "takers" by pulling himself by bootstraps. He was such a poor role model to his children's values that he literally had to pay $500,000 to bribe a college to take them in, not caring if they valued the education they were getting or who didn't get that spot who worked their ass off.

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