The Divide

This book is like the movie Inside Job, but for world poverty.

It'll also leave you feeling angry and helpless to fix the problems, as Inside Job did.

A bleak look at the capability of humans to exploit one another on a mass scale. And the systems in place to mask and obscure the exploitation, twisting it into positive PR.

The author does suggest solutions to world poverty and the systematic exploitation of developing countries, but these solutions are not even remotely realistic and he knows it. This is because the aggressive capitalist system that's doing the exploiting has no incentive to change, even in the face of a huge social uprising. It has huge incentives to push even harder on exploitation, especially on developing countries where it can exploit remotely, from a distance, with debt and tariffs.

Those living in poverty in developing countries will sadly keep getting f*&ked.

Learned a lot about world economics, the IMF, world bank, and trade deals like NAFTA.