{"id":1711668,"date":"2022-10-26T06:30:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T10:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1711668"},"modified":"2022-10-26T10:49:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T14:49:16","slug":"u2s-bono-capitalism-crushes-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u2s-bono-capitalism-crushes-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"U2\u2019s Bono: Capitalism Crushes Poverty"},"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\">10<\/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%2Fu2s-bono-capitalism-crushes-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=1711668&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/bono-capitalism-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><strong>Bono wants to save the world one song at a time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>U2\u2019s lead singer has never been shy about overstepping his reach, be it <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/music\/news\/bono-apology-u2-itunes-album-memoir-1235411778\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shoving music onto fans<\/a> via iTunes or playing Live Aid to help starving Africans.<\/p>\n<p>His activism has always been messy and full of contradictions, never more apparent than when his band <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2017\/nov\/07\/tax-bono-harming-world-poorest-glastonbury-avoidance-paradise-papers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dodges tax burdens<\/a> while demanding others pay up.<\/p>\n<p>His new memoir, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Surrender-40-Songs-One-Story\/dp\/0525521046\/ref=asc_df_0525521046\/?tag=hyprod-20&#038;linkCode=df0&#038;hvadid=598275089707&#038;hvpos=&#038;hvnetw=g&#038;hvrand=12771178593438875893&#038;hvpone=&#038;hvptwo=&#038;hvqmt=&#038;hvdev=c&#038;hvdvcmdl=&#038;hvlocint=&#038;hvlocphy=9028786&#038;hvtargid=pla-1722111458317&#038;psc=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story,<\/a>\u201d captures his colorful life with the Irish quartet, now in its fifth decade of music. The singer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2022\/10\/24\/magazine\/bono-interview.html?searchResultPosition=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spoke to The New York Times<\/a> about the book, his thoughts on activism and more.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Bono Is Still Trying to Figure Out U2 and Himself \u2013 The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WwpaAIt4OZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/WwpaAIt4OZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ariel Moutsatsos (@arielmou) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arielmou\/status\/1584666630499491848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The conversation found Bono, whose politics lean to the Left, admitting a hard truth for Times readers to hear.\u00a0Socialism isn\u2019t the global panacea we need. Capitalism, warts and all, is the better option.<\/p>\n<p>Bono blasted activists who love breaking stuff but can\u2019t be bothered getting their hands dirty to make things happen. Systemic change demands hard work, he says, and not everyone is up to the task.<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, all the donations in the world won\u2019t necessarily solve intractable problems like hunger. And that lesson clashed with the man he used to be.<\/p>\n<p>I 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. I 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.<\/p>\n<p>Later, he slammed those who reflexively bash business leaders, ignoring how important they are for the greater good.<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t grow up to like the idea that we\u2019ve made heroes out of businesspeople, but if you\u2019re bringing jobs to a community and treating people well, then you are a hero.<\/p>\n<p>Bono also spoke of reaching across the aisle, praising anew President George W. Bush\u2019s efforts to fight HIV in Africa. He admits doing so may lose the group some fans, but so be it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/bono-mccartney-gore-sequel\/\"><strong>RELATED: BONO, MACCA SHILL FOR AL GORE\u2019s CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUEL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The singer retained some of his progressive bona fides in the interview, calling\u00a0Rupert Murdoch \u201cevil\u201d and reciting the Democrat party line that he\u2019s destroying democracy without a scrap of evidence. He also cursed out Che Guevara, a no-no in far-Left circles.<\/p>\n<p>Bono previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/09\/bono-trump-worst-idea-228398\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">railed against President Donald Trump<\/a>, too, calling him \u201cpotentially the worst idea that ever happened to America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later, U2\u2019s frontman<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/27392b6a56924ec2afb40f34c9e9d439\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> banned Trump from attending U2 concerts<\/a> and slammed him as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/bono-trump-destroy-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">return to previous, cruel leaders.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Big primates have been around a lot longer than democracy, and this dude who shall not be named \u2013 he is just a new manifestation of that big primate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bono wants to save the world one song at a time. 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