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The Raging 2020s

Companies, Countries, People - And the Fight for Our Future

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By: Alec Ross
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Huge corporations are acting like nations, global wealth is going to billionaires, and ordinary people are suffering. It's set to be a rocky decade - but we can fix it.

As the market consolidates under fewer and larger companies, it's increasingly in the interest of private companies to behave like nations. And when the government is bogged down in bureaucratic negotiations and culture wars, people begin to look to nimble, powerful companies to solve these problems - and to be our moral standard-bearers. It shouldn't be like this.

New York Times best-selling author Alec Ross weaves interviews with the world's most influential thinkers with fascinating stories of corporate activism and malfeasance, government failure and renewal, and innovative economic and political models being implemented around the world, to propose a new social contract - one that benefits workers and everyday citizens in the face of unprecedented global change.

©2021 Alec Ross (P)2021 Penguin Audio
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Some well-made arguments, but let down by the end

So, I felt this made some good arguments from the left wing perspective but I think it was let down by a blind belief in the climate change catastrophe paradigm leading to an outcome like global nuclear war (which is demonstrably nonsense). It also doesn't accurately account for human nature, preferring to tack to the ridiculous notion that humans believe in fairness and equity at a population level (which they patently do not, and never have; most people only care about people in their monkeysphere, and the only people who complain about fairness and equity are either those at the bottom, or a handful of champagne socialists who NEVER practice what they preach).

These failings lead to a disappointing conclusion chapter that reads like it was written by someone in upper sixth for an A-level politics essay, which is quite jarring given the rest of the book was reasonably well-argued.

In conclusion, it was worth the listen but I'd probably skip the conclusion chapter.

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great read

One of the best books on the current political and economic climate. It sheds light on the historical roots, agents, and interconnectedness of today’s social issues, while also proposing potential solutions.

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