The Divide by Matt Taibbi – Audiobook On-line
“The Divide” by Matt Taibbi is a e book that explores the rising revenue inequality in America and its devastating results on society. Taibbi argues that there are two totally different justice methods in America, one for the rich, and one for everybody else. He explores how this divide has been created and perpetuated, components such because the monetary disaster of 2008, the prison justice system, and the function of politicians and companies. By means of interviews with these impacted by the divide, together with each low-income people and rich bankers, Taibbi gives a compelling argument for why this rising inequality is a risk to American democracy and affords solutions for how you can tackle this concern. In the end, “The Divide” is a robust critique of the present state of American society and a name to motion for readers to demand change.
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The Divide
- American Injustice within the Age of the Wealth Hole
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
A scathing portrait of a urgent new American disaster
Over the previous twenty years, America has develop into an increasing number of entangled in a statistical thriller:
Poverty elevated. Crime decreased. The jail inhabitants doubled. Fraud by the wealthy takes 40 % of the world’s wealth. The wealthy are getting richer. Nobody goes to jail.
In the hunt for an answer, journalist Matt Taibbi found the Divide, the seam in American life the place our two most troubling developments—rising wealth inequality and mass incarceration—come collectively, pushed by a dramatic shift in American citizenship: Our fundamental rights are actually decided by our wealth or poverty. The Divide is what permits massively harmful fraud by the hyperwealthy to go unpunished, whereas turning poverty itself into a criminal offense—but it surely’s not possible to see till you take a look at these two alarming developments aspect by aspect.
In The Divide, Matt Taibbi takes readers on a galvanizing journey via each side of our new system of justice—the fun-house-mirror worlds of the untouchably rich and the criminalized poor. He uncovers the startling looting that preceded the monetary collapse; a wild conspiracy of billionaire hedge fund managers to destroy an organization via soiled methods; and the story of a whistleblower who will get in the best way of the most important banks in America, solely to seek out herself within the crosshairs. On the opposite aspect of the Divide, Taibbi takes us to the entrance traces of the immigrant dragnet; into the newly punitive welfare system which treats its beneficiaries as thieves; and deep contained in the stop-and-frisk world, the place standing in entrance of your personal dwelling has develop into an arrestable offense. As he narrates these unimaginable tales, he attracts out and analyzes their frequent supply: a perverse new commonplace of justice, based mostly on a radical, disturbing new imaginative and prescient of civil rights.
By means of astonishing—and enraging—accounts of the high-stakes capers of the rich and nightmare tales of normal folks caught within the Divide’s punishing logic, Taibbi lays naked one of many best challenges we face in modern American life: surviving a system that devours the lives of the poor, turns a blind eye to the harmful crimes of the rich, and implicates us all.
An in depth straightforward to grasp e book on the mess this nation is in. It must be required studying. Giving it to my youngsters. We’d like a change.
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