Stubborn Attachments

An economist read a couple of philosophy books, deemed himself enlightened, and wrote this book. Throughout the book, he is gerrymandering philosophies, research papers, and statistics to support his world views and truisms. Such a pile of bullshit supporting his claim that growth is good for growth's sake, just because it has been good in the previous centuries. He is hand-waving about Wealth+, which is supposedly an improved GDP metric, taking well-being and the environment into account, but never really defining it clearly.

What he's trying to say the entire book is that we should more or less support and continue the current game of musical chairs. It was good for “the rich,” and because of that, it'll be good for the poor as well when it trickles down in the “long run.” There are so many instances of ridiculous thinking like that, completely dismissing life experiences of anyone but the upper classes.

I'm so angry right now, but I was furious reading this stupid book disagreeing with basically every single sentence. Do NOT recommend.