Prepare to be angry and full of disgust when you start reading this book. I have rage in reading this. The Davos Man describes CEOs and billionaires who think they are “helping us” (collective us who still have budgets) by being greedy bastards. Spoiler Alert: they’re not.

If you don’t know by now, the United States worships the almighty dollar. To be more frank, we have a toxic capitalistic society. Everything (EVERYTHING) we do has to satisfy money in some way. If that wasn’t true, we’d make sure our education dollars were a line item rather than something that has to be fought over every penny for. We’d have solutions to homelessness and there would not be such a chasm between the rich and poor. We’d have a stronger middle class. “Over the last 4 decades, the top 1% of Americans have gained more than $21 TRILLION in wealth. Meanwhile, the bottom half have lost more than $900 billion.”

And “Davos Man” thinks he/ they’re helping with their manipulations. They believe in the false premise of trickle-down economics. Their greed has systematically changed the world and without journalists like Goodman shining a light on them, we will never truly know how much damage they have caused. From the book: “The shape of our economics is not the product of happenstance. It is the result of deliberative engineering by the people who constructed the system in the service of their own interests. We are living in a world designed by Davos Man to direct ever-greater fortune toward Davos Man.”

There’s a quote that we (especially US citizens) need to get behind and educate ourselves: “If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of the fools.” — Plato

Here’s your wake up call.

Thank you to NetGalley, William Morrow, and Custom House for this eARC in exchange for my honest review.