Imagine if the Trump era were the night of rock bottom. Imagine if after this we sobered up. Stopped trusting billionaires to save us. Stopped venerating wealth above service. Stopped trusting those who break our society to be its fixers. Imagine if an age of reform is coming.
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Imagine if Mark Zuckerberg said he was changing the world, and then no one believed him, and then we moved on and just properly regulated him since we saw that he was just a guy with a company.
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Imagine if super-rich people remade themselves in the spirit of the community organizations they donate to, instead of remaking those organizations in their spirit.
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Imagine if we understood that, while Monopoly is a game, monopolies are no fun, and we need to smash them. Face and Book. Goo and Gle.
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Imagine if we fell back in love with the founding American creed of self-government. And we fought off every hoodied boy billionaire or strongman demagogue or chemical magnate who wanted to seize public power.
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Imagine if we didn’t just imagine this.
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If you want to read where this came from, you can: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/539747/winners-take-all-by-anand-giridharadas/9780451493248/ …
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