On Tuesday 1/25 at 7:30 pm ET (4:30 pm PT), Daily Poster paying subscribers chatted with New York Times Global Economics Correspondent Peter S. Goodman about his new book, Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World.
Subscribers can find a replay of the event below.
Goodman previously worked as The Times’ national economics correspondent, playing a leading role in the paper's award-winning coverage of the Great Recession, as well as served as the Washington Post's telecommunications reporter, covering the dot-com bubble and bust. He was also Sirota’s editor at International Business Times.
In his new book Davos Man, Goodman delivers a searing exposé of how the global billionaire class has engineered a bottom-up transfer of wealth that has transformed 21st-century life and dangerously destabilized democracy. The book lays bare the roots of Trump, Brexit, and anti-democratic movements sweeping the globe, exposing how wealthy executives perpetuated the agony of the pandemic by monopolizing the benefits of COVID vaccines and laying the groundwork for the rise of Omicron.
You can read excerpts of the book at the New York Times and at Vanity Fair.
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I wok for a company that has 500,000 employees whose leaders go to Davos and speak there. The small company I worked for was acquired by them. They say all the right things, go through the trends (Black Lives Matter, Me Too) and have absolutely commitment to anything except the company profits. It seems that the young people they hire -- and those are the employees they want; if you don't get promoted within a certain number of years they give you the boot because they want cheaper people -- have no self-awareness, awareness of humanity, or ethics. They live in the world of Amazon and Uber and I honestly don't know what they know except technology. I was a Bernie Sanders supporter so I know there are young people who are not like that. But this company -- which is run by (only) millionaires -- does business with other large corporations and it's a different planet than the one I care about. But I'm old and it's very hard to find another job. This isn't a question, just my glimpse into this world from one of this company's "resources" -- that's what they call employees.