the more heroic it sounds to “give back.” It’s what I would call “conscience laundering”—feeling better about accumulating more than any one person could possibly need to live on by sprinkling a little around as an act of charity. But this just keeps the existing structure of inequality in place. The rich sleep better at night, while others get just enough to keep the pot from boiling over.… I’m really not calling for an end to capitalism; I’m calling for humanism.… Money should be spent trying out concepts that shatter current structures and systems that have turned much of the world into one
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