While the Democrats celebrate the blue wave, we all seem to be ignoring the larger problem in America: inequality. Anand Giridharadas, the author of Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, joins Nick Bilton to explain how elites are destroying the world, how philanthropy is a fallacy designed to keep the poor poor, how close the United States is to a bona fide revolution, and why Giridharadas believes conservatives are using social issues to keep the working class from voting for its real economic interests.

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