When I was reading this, lying in bed my wife asked me what
I was reading now – the format of the book is enough that it shook her out of
the idea that it was just another book and instead made her ask.
I told her it might be the most important book I ever read.
So many books that strike a criticism of the existing world and a future that
can come through the mechanisms recommended in the book just have so many holes
and they leave me feeling hopeless. But I keep reading them, both in the “Destroy
Capitalism” and the “Reform Capitalism” genres. But the authors here have a
smart take that make me optimistic view of how we get from here to there. We
need a party moving forward the invented future. We need emancipation, a universal
income, and we need to watch the rise of the robots. But we need to leverage
that rise. The program is incomplete, but it is a foundation. And it is a
source for optimism. The kids are all right.
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