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Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America
by Alec MacGillis, Stefan Alexander MacGillis
This is one of those books that I'm going to be sitting with and digesting for awhile yet. It tells you very little you don't already know (if you've been paying attention) but the way MacGillis is able to illustrate with stories of real people just how broken everything is, and how much everyone seems to be OK with that especially those in positions of power to actually DO something about it, is the killer in this narrative. It can make any small efforts seem futile, or at best, you're doing what little you can do to make yourself feel better, not because anything a single individual does is actually going to affect any bottom line for the companies being examined here. It is a chilling, no punches pulled, damning account. And yet, it's not probably going to change much of anything other than to make the reader feel like they've already lost in a game they didn't have a choice to play.
(and yes, I am very aware that recording a review and my reading of this book on a platform owned by the company at the heart of this account is a perfect illustration of how messed up it all is)
(and yes, I am very aware that recording a review and my reading of this book on a platform owned by the company at the heart of this account is a perfect illustration of how messed up it all is)