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khornstein1's review against another edition
2.0
I finally finished listening to this on Audible. The audio version is pretty bad; it's like listening to a lot of dry, out-of-date info being delivered by Siri.
I can't remember why I was interested in this one: I think I was interested in Naomi Klein and some of her more recent writing but thought I should read or listen to this first. This book is now 20 years old and thus the problem with reading nonfiction that is timely at the time but way less so now. References to AOL, the World Trade Center and Borders exploiting its workers make the book appear cutely antique at best, and annoyingly out-of-touch at worst.
The Good News: some things have gotten better (child labor, somewhat), economic growth in other countries (a lot). Some things have become way worse: the nature of work in the U.S., increased automation and outsourcing, retail monopolies like Amazon etc. etc. Didn't Daniel Gilbert or someone talk about this? The future is now...and in many ways can never be predicted.
I did have fun thinking about several items of clothing I owned in 1999 while listening, and if you're interested in what people were worried about in the 90's or what people were politically active round, it may be worth a skim.
I can't remember why I was interested in this one: I think I was interested in Naomi Klein and some of her more recent writing but thought I should read or listen to this first. This book is now 20 years old and thus the problem with reading nonfiction that is timely at the time but way less so now. References to AOL, the World Trade Center and Borders exploiting its workers make the book appear cutely antique at best, and annoyingly out-of-touch at worst.
The Good News: some things have gotten better (child labor, somewhat), economic growth in other countries (a lot). Some things have become way worse: the nature of work in the U.S., increased automation and outsourcing, retail monopolies like Amazon etc. etc. Didn't Daniel Gilbert or someone talk about this? The future is now...and in many ways can never be predicted.
I did have fun thinking about several items of clothing I owned in 1999 while listening, and if you're interested in what people were worried about in the 90's or what people were politically active round, it may be worth a skim.
allie8973's review against another edition
Skimmed the important chapters but didn't get much out of it because yeah it's fucking depressing and also people have been talking about this for a while. But at the time I could see it being good