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Im like 80% in Confessions of an economic hitman by John Perkins. Book is good and is easy to consume, tho his views are way too idealistic. His testimony is great but i can't stop thinking that he is one of those guys that believes that this is not real capitalism but corporatism, as if it was a completely divorced economic system.
Well To Be Fair he was in the system. He only got 'out' as it were because of a girlfriend he met in central America who had a conscience. One of those things you know. You are so in the system that even though you're shown the reality of how awful it is, you still want to believe it was somewhat ok because of whatever. Like libs that get a taste of radical thought, they're so preprogrammed....
But still. Straight line from the tactics of economic hit men to Jeffery Epstein. Shit never ended and is still happening today
Yeah, this book was written during the early 2010s, I think, and has the time-period stamped on it, essentially.