Davos Man

Quite a few reviewers rushing to the defense of the billionaires. If anything, this book is far too kind to them, but to be fair, anything less than the guillotine would be too kind. At least I can bitch about Bezos on a site he owns (this one)... for now. Let's just hope his next rocket ride ends with justice and the rest of them take on similarly dangerous hobbies.

If you are half paying attention then you know the broad strokes of the book. If you are really paying attention the way the billionaires and the mega-corporations work the political and economic system mostly to their benefit and everyone else's detriment won't be unfamiliar either. It is infuriating when it is laid out in such a concentrated manner. The last third of the book being about a positive future vision to break out of the modern dystopia and the places it is going at the hands of these people is why I bumped it up from 3-4 stars to 5. Just crying in your cornflakes loses its cathartic value quickly. Identifying relatively small steps to start addressing, but by no means completely reversing, the dysfunctional status quo is more uplifting. Calling out the false dichotomies like "do as the billionaires say or you are a Luddite or anti-business" is also more uplifting as well. There is no magic wand to fix all this "easily", especially with the resistance the billionaires always have towards the masses earning more power and influence but there are things we can do to reverse these trends for the betterment of everyone.