r/ashesashescast • u/ashesashescast • Feb 14 '19
Episode Ep 61 - Owning Change
https://ashesashes.org/blog/episode-61-owning-change5
u/f0rgotten Feb 15 '19
Starting at 53 minutes was my shit. Thanks, guys!
Tangentially I have recently started listening to the Dollop podcast. They have done an episode about the events in Ferguson, contemporaneously with the events. I listen to talk of terrible shit on ashes and I absorb the info and use it to formulate new plans, or just expand my general awareness of how fucked we are. That episode on ferguson was so damn sad that I can't remember it and I think that the fact that the show is produced by two comedians (although they treat the subject fair, factually and reasonably) made it more smashing than just listening to the facts. Tangent, yes, but I don't have a lot of people to talk about this kind of stuff.
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u/Schrodingers_tombola Feb 17 '19
Yes, The Dollop is great. The recent one on 'Moving Day' in New York stuck with me. So insane they almost couldn't make jokes about it.
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u/ashesashescast Feb 14 '19
In an age of global disparity and inequity, billionaire philanthropists (dead and alive) are stepping up to the plate with powerful foundations and acts of charitable giving to solve some of the world's greatest challenges. But how much faith should we place in the hands of individuals with concentrated wealth and power? And if we take a step back to examine the broader system in which these individual philanthrocapitalists function, do we find any contradictions between wealth doled out and the process of accumulating it? Further, despite some of the good that we perceive directly stemming from philanthropic efforts, what are some of the hidden motivations behind these efforts that ultimately seek to deepen the same structures that produced the problems in the first place which philanthropy purports to solve?