ford orhether henry andrew carnegie, they did great things with their wealth.ually quote andrew carnegie in your book, in a very condescending way about, of course we need to give away the money because we know how to do it better. that is one of the things you take on and say that is not the right way to do it. we should not assume that we know better than the people in need. believed thenie like him, rockefeller, were endowed with special qualities that gave them the right to decide what the priorities for the public should be, and gave them a special insight and how to actually solve these problems. , 125 years later, we know more about the problems and solving the great challenges of the world. part of what we know is if we are to actually solve these problems, we need to listen to proximate to the people's and communities who are closest to them. david: which leads me to one of the tenants in your book, having the right perspective, but also to another, having humility in our giving. darren: it is that we approach our giving what some sense of humility, th

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presidential election which is 11 months from now i think the democrats have basically don't smear trump andrew carnegie she said if we do and to create doubt in the minds of the. dignity and honesty in the process the democrats are holding all these hearings and system or knees and people coming out and giving a big deal hold that it will create enough doubt in the minds of the most i think this is a teetotal unix being used to prepare for the general election because everyone knows that. are going to end in removal of from $63000000.00 amid fears that the senate will not remove the president from office democrats have a plan b. when it comes to undermining donald trump they're ready to resort to some old weapons like the miller report artist martin explains it's difficult to understand the purpose of last night's impeachment vote why should the upper house of the u.s. congress pass judgment on donald trump when democrats already have a plan b. the house judiciary committee says it will continue to investigate donald trump regardless of the outcome but what else is left to investigate well the house ju

steel tycoon andrew carnegie build still libraries for the edification of people beneath him. john d rockefeller and others set aside huge portions of their wealth and cases property to make the country better. maybe most significantly in january 1914 henry ford more than doubled the prevailing factory waste to remarkable $5 for an 8 hour day. he didn't have to do that but his company was succeeding and he thought he should. some historians trace the creation of the american middle class to that decision. it is nearly impossible to imagine a big company doing anything like that today. attitudes are too different. private equity isn't built in a lot of public libraries these days. the model is ruthless economic efficiency. at sourced the jobs for the valuable assets by viral management and what the scope is cleared, the highest bidder is often asia. it happened around the country. a small number of people phenomenally rich. one is new york-based hedge fund manager named paul singer who according to forbes has amassed a personal fortune of $1 million. how he made that money, mad

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right now he holds a senior andrew carnegie fellow hardship, one of the most prestigious awards in the social sciences. and last but not least, he -- [inaudible] also joining us today for this discussion is richard waters, the financial times west coast editor. he's based in san francisco, and he leads a team of writers focused on technology and silicon valley. he also writes widely about the tech industry and the uses and impacts of technology. current areas of interest include artificial intelligence and the growing power of the u.s. tech platforms. his previous position at financial times include various finance beats in london, new york bureau chief and telecoms editor also based in new york. professor russ excel mr. water withs will are -- russell will an vise a.i. implications including the expectation that capabilities will eventually exceed those of humans across a range of real world decision making scenarios. we will hear about steps we can take to insure this is not the distaupic future of science fiction, but a new world that will benefit us all. we will hear from them for

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a lot of good has been done, but you quote andrew carnegie at one point in your book in a very condescendingof course, we need to give away the money because we know how to do it better. you say that's not necessarily the right way to do it. we shouldn't assume that we know better than the people who are in need. darren: carnegie believed that men like him and rockefeller were endowed with special qualities that gave them the right to decide what the priorities for the public should be. insightthem a special on how to actually solve these problems. , 125 years later, we know more about the problems and solving the great challenges of the world, and part of what we know is that if we are to actually solve these problems, --need to listen to and get we need to listen to the communities and get closer to them. david: another perspective is having humility in our giving. darren: it is that we approach our giving with some sense of humility that we don't have the answer, that just because we may have been successful in business or in some facet of life and become wealthy or become a donor, that w