{"id":1710637,"date":"2022-10-25T15:33:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T19:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1710637"},"modified":"2022-10-25T15:34:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T19:34:08","slug":"left-leaning-u2-frontman-bono-admits-entrepreneurial-capitalism-is-the-off-ramp-out-of-extreme-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/left-leaning-u2-frontman-bono-admits-entrepreneurial-capitalism-is-the-off-ramp-out-of-extreme-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"Left-Leaning U2 Frontman Bono Admits \u2018Entrepreneurial Capitalism\u2019 Is \u2018The Off-Ramp Out Of Extreme Poverty\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fleft-leaning-u2-frontman-bono-admits-entrepreneurial-capitalism-is-the-off-ramp-out-of-extreme-poverty%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1710637&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/bono\">Bono<\/a> just said that it\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/capitalism\">capitalism<\/a>, not socialism, that will save people from poverty.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 62-year Irish <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/music\">singer-songwriter<\/a> discussed this and several other topics with The New York Times during an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2022\/10\/24\/magazine\/bono-interview.html\">interview<\/a> to promote his upcoming memoir, \u201cSurrender: 40 Songs, One Story,\u201d out November 1.<\/p>\n<p>Like so many other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/entertainment\">musicians<\/a>, Bono (real name Paul David Hewson) holds left-leaning political views. But the U2 frontman is also critical of anyone who talks a big game but won\u2019t act. Over the years of being an activist, Bono said he discovered that donations alone aren\u2019t the answer to solving the world\u2019s problems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI ended up as an activist in a very different place from where I started. I thought that if we just redistributed resources, then we could solve every problem,\u201d he told the NYT. \u201cI now know that\u2019s not true. There\u2019s a funny moment when you realize that as an activist: The off-ramp out of extreme poverty is, ugh, commerce, it\u2019s entrepreneurial capitalism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He later criticized anyone who hates business leaders by the nature of their position.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t grow up to like the idea that we\u2019ve made heroes out of business people, but if you\u2019re bringing jobs to a community and treating people well, then you are a hero,\u201d Bono said. He also reluctantly admitted to admiring President George W. Bush pledging $18 billion to help fight HIV in Africa. Bono said he was willing to give credit where it was due despite the potential for alienating fans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI often instead use the word \u2018actualist,\u2019 because activists sometimes like to stay on the outside and criticize, whereas the \u201cactualist\u201d wants to get [expletive] done,\u201d the \u201cBeautiful Day\u201d singer told the publication.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI found that if I was ready to drop some biases, coming from the left to work with the right, we could get stuff done. I know it will lose some music fans, but it was important for me to have that in there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bono also cursed Marxist icon \u201cChe\u201d Guevara, though he did retain some of his leftist views, including calling former News Corporation head Rupert Murdoch \u201cevil\u201d and accusing him of trying to \u201cdismantle democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In anticipation of the memoir\u2019s release, the U2 singer also apologized again for the much-maligned promotion he did with Apple in 2014 when the album \u201cSongs Of Innocence\u201d was automatically added to each iTunes user\u2019s account. Bono described it\u00a0 as an \u201coverreach\u201d resulting from his \u201cvaunting ambition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI take full responsibility,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/music\/news\/bono-apology-u2-itunes-album-memoir-1235411778\/\">said<\/a> of the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bono just said that it\u2019s capitalism, not socialism, that will save people from poverty.\u00a0 The 62-year Irish singer-songwriter discussed this and several other topics with The New York Times during an interview to promote his upcoming memoir, \u201cSurrender: 40 Songs, One Story,\u201d out November 1. Like so many other musicians, Bono (real name Paul David &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1710640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1710637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1710637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1710640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1710637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1710637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1710637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}