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I bought this book because my philosophy tends to lean in the direction indicated by the book (to the left), but I was disappointed because this book was just crappy. It read more like a Ph.D. thesis than a popular economics book. It drew on lots of philosophy, Locke, John Stuart Mill, etc... when frankly I don't care who said these same things (or different things) 200 years ago. I just want a coherent argument that applies now. Philosophy has a fetish with expanding on previous authors' work... as if those ideas were owned by those authors. As the central thesis of this book is that much of our wealth is inherited and belongs to us all, the same should be applied to philosophy. I don't care what John Stuart Mill said - just say it to me now and I will judge whether I believe it. This was meant to be a book of ideas, but it turned out to be a book of quotation marks. That is not to say that the content has been completely lost for me, but it certainly shouldn't have taken me 3 months to read it, and the message has been diluted over time.

2020-09-08 08:54