Tech mafia wife admits: We were Klaus Schwab’s “useful idiots” – Silicon Valley’s philanthropy myth dismantled
A woman who herself was at the center of the most powerful foundation and tech funding flows is now speaking words that are sending shockwaves through elite philanthropy.
Nicole Shanahan, once the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, co-founder of major social and climate projects, political ally of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – and authorized to sign donations in the nine-figure range.
Today, looking back, she calls herself “a useful idiot of the Great Reset.”
Shanahan thus draws a conclusion that calls into question everything on which modern “progressive philanthropy” is built. Not the alleviation of social problems, not the empowerment of disadvantaged groups, not sustainable improvement – but a shift of power, money, and the authority to interpret events toward private networks of global actors.
The pitfall of charity – not helping, but controlling
Shanahan describes how a small, wealthy group of “tech mafia wives” has been drawn into the philanthropic system in recent years. With large budgets, a clear conscience, and well-defined political slogans: ESG (Environment, Social, Governance), inclusion, climate, social justice, diversity.
These are terms that sound promising – and yet, according to Shanahan, they have become tools. Tools not to strengthen society, but to establish narratives and shift power to unelected structures.
It confirms what critics have been claiming for years:
“The whole model is broken. It makes everyone worse off.”
Financial support flowed – but rarely to where actual progress was measurable. Instead, capital migrated into cycles of NGOs, advisory boards, foundation networks, and international forums.
Glossy social programs, attractive logos, multi-million-dollar panels-while real problems worsened.
- Crime: higher.
- Psychic health: worse.
- Quality of life: declining.
And whenever criticism arose, the killer reference was used:
“But climate.” “But social progress.”
Slogans as a shield – no results as proof.
Ideology devours reality
Shanahan describes how many wealthy female philanthropists felt morally empowered-as part of a movement to improve the world.
But in reality, she says, they were being exploited.
“We were used to lay the groundwork for Schwab’s Great Reset.”
Not through coercion, but through narratives, social engineering, and social belonging.
Instead of progress, there was the delegation of power to technocratic structures.
Instead of democracy, there was NGO governance.
Instead of competition, there was ESG compliance and political control of markets.
Desiree Fixler sums it up perfectly:
“We got higher energy costs, devalued money, fewer jobs – and creeping control over how we live and speak.”
Those who disagree are considered “anti-science.”
Those who debate are considered “backward.”
Democratic discourse has been replaced by morally charged dogmas.
The crucial turning point: Success is not about money flow – but about results.
Shanahan says today that she genuinely wanted to help, not just shift money around, but strengthen communities. But the opposite occurred – despite the billion-dollar framework.
“My version of success would have been for these communities to truly rise. Not just for pumping more money into them.”
If philanthropy produces no results, but only administration, identity politics and climate dogmatism – then it is not help, but an instrument of power.
And when even a woman who financed the system from within says today:
“The model is broken”,
then this is a warning signal for all those who believe that progress arises from slogans and foundation funds.
Conclusion
Poverty wasn’t fought, responsibility was shifted.
Democracy wasn’t strengthened, technocracy was.
And many who wanted to help became-as Shanahan says – “useful idiots” in a global transformation project that doesn’t primarily benefit the people, but those who control it.
What remains now is not outrage – but the question:
Who truly benefits from philanthropy if it exacerbates problems instead of solving them?
WOKE: Nicole Shanahan exposes how elite tech wives were steered by NGOs, Hollywood, Davos and their own companies into backing Great Reset policies, admitting they were “useful idiots.”
— @amuse (@amuse) November 29, 2025
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December 10, 2025
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