For Us, the Living
Book description
After crashing his car in 1939, Naval Airman Perry Nelson awakens to find the radically different world of 2086, one marked by a United Europe, the destruction of Manhattan island by two helicopters in 2003, and other changes in the economy, legal system, and the relationships between men and women,…
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1 author picked For Us, the Living as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book is an unfinished work, hard to follow, because it is a draft never reviewed by the author and published posthumously.
However, it is a must-read, so please do not be discouraged as I was, for the ideas that it encloses picture a more equalized society practically based on the changing of our economic road, nothing else than ending capitalism as we know it.
Two subjects are of particular interest: first, how to correctly retribute people for the wealth they generate through their work; and second, a demonstration of how excess production and money amassing do not amount to…
From Paul's list on the Western’s social unrest and decay.
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