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Anand Giridharadas
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Anand Giridharadas writes The.Ink, a personal blog at the.ink about politics, economics and culture. Since 2020, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Billionaires Won Corona”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Anand Giridharadas's the.ink newsletter for commentary on wealth, big tech employees and workplace policy, and on political figures such as Noam Chomsky and Julian Assange.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A newsletter on politics and culture, money and power -- telling the truth without fear -- from Anand Giridharadas. Click to read The.Ink,
Most-linked posts?
- Billionaires Won Corona2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-10
- The Sacklers’ group chat of pain2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-19
- We can have democracy or we can have Facebook2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-11
What Hacker News says?
You're right. Jeff Bezos could give >$100k to every Amazon employee and only be giving away the money he's gained during the pandemic[0]. How can he not allocate at least 100k for each employee and change a lot of lives? He could easily give everyone this and have zero impact on this life. What can he do with $200B that he could not do with $100B? I could easily give away $10k to charity and save multiple lives[1] w…
Comment linking /p/billionaire-wealth-just-got-wealthier
on “Mailchimp insiders react to employees getting no equity from Intuit sale”Submitted We can have democracy or we can have Facebook as a story · 283 points
HN discussionI really wonder what Vidal would be saying today. I guess it would probably be something similar to Noam Chomsky, who is voting Democrat this year because the policy differences are so stark. https://the.ink/p/noam-chomsky-wants-you-to-vote-for
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on “Survivor of CIA Torture and Rendition Supports Assange at Extradition Trial”Submitted Is this how Russia ends? as a story · 56 points
HN discussionI usually think along your lines, and recently I read an article that made me think different https://the.ink/p/as-goes-amazon-so-goes-the-nation?s=r - not always different, and I don't know when to apply one thinking or the other yet. But I see its value.
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on “Apple employees criticize work-from-home policy in open letter”Submitted The Sacklers’ group chat of pain as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted We can have democracy or we can have Facebook, but we can't have both (2020) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The American dream is now in Denmark as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We are falling on our face because we are jumping high as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Sacklers’ group chat of pain as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted They want to steal this seat for a reason as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mayflower Mouth as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Manslaughter of 200k as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Billionaires Won Corona as a story · 1 points
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