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Since you are making book suggestions (or not), I would suggest then that you open this [1] book up. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dawn_of_Everything h

• tristor 3y ago
  Thanks for the recommendation, I will definitely check it out. I really liked "Debt: The First 5000 Years" and "Bullshit Jobs" by the same author.
  • sixstringtheory 3y ago
    I’m about halfway through TDoE and it’s pretty reactionary and disorganized. They do provide many interesting pieces of information but so far have not woven them into a compelling narrative. In fact they often fleetingly admit that their examples could be counter to their hypothesis or that it’s simply impossible to know. I do eventually also want to read Debt, but unsure I need to spend any time on Bullshit Jobs, as my assumption is that it’ll be myopically focused on the idea that some wizard behind the curtain has made the world economy the way it is, instead of it being an emergent phenomenon; an interconnected web of Chesterton fences that the author, in his usual condescending way, will be all too happy to burn, while providing no meaningful alternative. I mean I’ve had some jobs that felt like BS but I don’t need to spend my precious free time being preached to about it. It comes off as pandering, just more high brow than the tract material you find for cults and religions that seem to zero in on their target population’s biggest qualms with society and offer the promise of a better way.