I will give it a read, I'm picking it up from the library today. But I'll have to say, any of these books that solely focuses on "They", "evil plan", "us-vs-them" without recognizing & acknowleging the sociological and psychological emergent phenomena of human relationships, social organization, and market forces that naturally lead to inequality and satisfaction of some wants/needs and subsequent dissatisfaction of others....is at best lacking, at worst just fearmongering and fostering/cemeting discontent & conflict. Here's hoping it's not a conspiracy theory book....
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You might find this book interesting, then:
Status Anxiety - Alain de Botton
Status Anxiety This is a book about an almost universal anxiety that rarely gets mentioned directly: an anxiety about what others think of us; about whether we’re judged a success or a failure, a winner or a loser. This is a book about status anxiety. We care about our status for a simple...
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It is a deeply depressing, profoundly unsettling, horribly well researched, and ultimately, rather thought-provoking, book.
Not a "they", "them", "us-v-them" tome, unless off shore tax havens, weakly (or non) regulated financial sectors, and the lamentable existence of greedy (and ethics-free) professional bodies can be classed as 'conspiracies'.