Because of the power associated with controlling wealth, leaders in institutions of philanthropy and finance are some of worst perpetrators of the savior dynamic. Despite all their talk of wanting to help, reform, even revolutionize the world, saviors won’t touch the underlying system of privilege and power because that’s what grants them their status and position in the world. In the end, saviors don’t heal anything. The savior complex often goes hand in hand with white supremacy.
