Episode · Stuff They Don't Want You To Know · 2024-08-30
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Ben Bowlin recommended Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins. Also mentioned: Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson's groundbreaking cyberpunk novel Snow Crash immerses readers in a chaotic future America defined by corporate franchising, hyper-inflation, and a virtual reality network known as the Metaverse.
Discussed“Um, I just, I want to understand the connection there because it made me think of a Neil Stephenson book called Ramdi where there's like these Chinese, like it's like a massive multiplayer online game and there's like gold farming that takes place and it's a way of like hiding criminal activity and like almost like a secret currency, you”
Where to get it
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins is an exposé detailing how covert economic strategies, loans, and international financial institutions are used by powerful nations and corporate elites to manipulate and exploit developing countries.
Recommended“everybody read confessions of an economic Hitman first off but Venezuela is having an economic collapse”
Where to get it
