Survival of the Richest

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Named One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2022 by and The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave us all behind. Beyond eye-opening, this book is eye-popping. A master storyteller, Rushkoff brings to life perhaps the greatest challenge of our time. A must-read. is more than a primer on a soulless worldview pervading all aspects of life. Defying fantasies of escape—from each other, from earthliness, from Earth—Rushkoff offers something at once more realistic and more imaginative: mutual regard, responsibility, and flourishing. In so doing, he mounts an impassioned defense of everything and everyone marked expendable in the fanatical pursuit of a blank slate. A devastating portrait of the cultures and logics underlying big tech. Rushkoff is going to make you mad enough to fight back. A vital, lucid, and enraging read. [Rushkoff’s] report is both fierce and amazed in the face of capitalism’s delusions; I for one am sharpening my pitchfork. Rushkoff gives us a sober, scathing oddsmaking on the recursive wager of the ultra-rich. Douglas Rushkoff has always been a singular observer and thinker. Embedded near the epicenters of the digital revolution, he has never flinched from honestly delivering fresh, radical, humane critiques of the emerging world. There are plenty of books decrying the horrors of twenty-first-century monopoly capitalism, but none quite like . Douglas Rushkoff’s keen eye as a seasoned media analyst, combined with his flair and wit as a writer and a performer, shine in this book. A hilarious and lacerating look at the elite sociopathy wrecking the world, and a call to arms for how the rest of us can fight it. With razor-sharp insight, Rushkoff unwraps the dazzling facade of the technological dream, revealing the alarming Mindset that underlies promises of planetary salvation. reveals fascinating tidbits about the elite tech crowd’s postapocalyptic survival strategies and the niche solutions being marketed to them. [A] thorough and authoritative condemnation of tech worship. A shocking account of how the very wealthy prep for doomsday [and]…an eye-popping look at some outlandish visions for the future. US

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