I don't know what I was expecting of this book, I seldom read that much into why a book is on my reading list. I get recommendations and if it looks interesting I will save it and probably read it months, if not even years later. This system works most of the time, it didn't this time around.

There are some interesting ideas in this book: The distribution of wealth (at least if we don't do anything about it, which the author says we won't), the distribution of work and the quality of it (same argument as above) and the way we will live (which has some very far fetched ideas).

The last point is one of the most stupid things about this book. He attests, that older people will end up living in the poorest neighborhoods, because it makes sense to live where it is cheapest if you don't need to go to work. Am I missing something or is this just plainly stupid? You still care if you live in a bad neighborhood, even if you are old, why would you suddenly not? People still care today and they try to work towards that their whole life.

He substantiates this by saying, people don't care about living well: Cities in Switzerland have been voted most livable, yet some random poorer city in Alabama or something is bigger than those cities in Switzerland, so it must be that people don't care about good living conditions or else it would be full there. I can't imagine that this is what he really thinks, because of how stupid this idea is.

He also imagines that there will be so much lower tier and higher tier work (which seems true) and the middle class will vanish, because middle class jobs are vanishing. This all seems very believable with the gig economy and all those skilled personnel that is needed nowadays. He thinks that nothing will change in favor of unskilled workers, because there are so many skilled and rich ones that will make it so through votes. I can't believe how sure he is, that those that need to have 2 to 3 jobs just to stay afloat will take the hit without any protest or voting for social policies.

Lastly, he also assures that this will turn out for the better, that this is good, even though it will suck for some people. People will also turn more conservative for some reason, even though statistics tells the opposite, because of people moving to bigger cities.

Those are just some of the weird ideas, that's why I can't be sure if he really knows what he is talking about, even though I'm even less of an expert. He could be right on any of those, but man, his arguments were so weak, I even laughed out loud on that argument about cities in Switzerland vs some bigger poorer cities in the US.

Wouldn't recommend this book and I would like to know who recommended this to me.