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"We've got about 400 people in this room.... Imagine if dinner was carted into this room, and four people got half the food. The night would end in violence," Anand Giridharadas told IDEAS host Nahlah Ayed at a public event hosted by the Samara Centre for Democracy."

Effective altruism is clearly an important topic but this is a pretty bad analogy. If we're discussing billionaires a (slightly) better reformulation of the analogy would be something like:

"We've got about 400 people in this room... Imagine if there were 40,000 meals carted into this room and four people got 39,000 of those meals"

However, this reformulation is also pretty bad. The way both of these are phrased "dinners" are basically a stand in for "dollars" (or whatever your currency of choice is) - and while "dinners" are generally perishable, "dollars" are not.

Setting those quibbles aside - how did Anand come to his diagnosis of the problem, and what is Anand's proposed solution? There's so little detail in this article that I'm honestly scratching my head.

As a thought exercise - how would Anand fill in the blank for a statement like "The world should follow the shared government, community, and decision making model of <insert_location_here>"?