Summary & Analysis : Winners Take All By Anand Giridharadas : The Elite Charade of Changing the World

Cohen eventually left McKinsey and MarketWorld to join the Obama Foundation.

About 40% of graduates from Cohen’s college went to working in consulting or banking. This figure seemed contradictory to many of the values that Georgetown prided itself on.

Some of the fundamental questions that Winners Take All attempts to answer are: Is it possible to do well while doing well? Can the people with the power to change the world truly to so for the benefit of broader society, and if the answer is yes, then why hasn’t any significant positive change been detected since the 1980s amongst those not in the top 1%? Why has widespread inequality continued to grow?

The people who have the power to cause positive change in the world, stand to gain the least from genuine positive change and have the most to lose as a result.