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rolin 's review for:
Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America
by Alec MacGillis, Stefan Alexander MacGillis
This book has a really impressive scope. Using Amazon's rise as a window, Alec MacGillis unfurls a narrative of regional inequality in America. How do some places get rich? And others poorer? This is a story of how capital is value in motion. It flows around the country in different ways from de-industrialized rust belts to gleaming hyper-unequal cities. Money seeps its away into the cracks of American society — into the divides of race, class, union vs. non-union, big business vs. small — and just as it enters, it leaves, eroding the social fabric and widening the gulfs.
The mistake in reading this book is thinking it's just about Amazon. It's about the multiple Amazons that have risen and fallen in America's 20th century. Bethlehem Steel for America's industrial age. It's about the Carlyle Group and the private equity raids. It's about the endless competition of who can be the most ruthless observers of our economic system and then exploit it. And then the rest of us are caught in the toss and turn.
The mistake in reading this book is thinking it's just about Amazon. It's about the multiple Amazons that have risen and fallen in America's 20th century. Bethlehem Steel for America's industrial age. It's about the Carlyle Group and the private equity raids. It's about the endless competition of who can be the most ruthless observers of our economic system and then exploit it. And then the rest of us are caught in the toss and turn.