***I would use the term "red pill" but I literally just a few hours ago learned what that means/meant in the reddit world, so yeah…no "red pill reddit" type books…
So what's a book you've read that really opened your eyes to….how a particular thing/race/concept/societal issue…actually works or came about. Where you've read it and afterwards said oh damn, I got to have my friends/family read this…
The book I just finished that inspired this post:
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
To boil it down, would society be better if the 1% didn't donate billions of dollars from their personal bank accounts but instead built/ran companies where all employees could prosper? Example: Walmart and McDonald’s have the most workers on food stamps and Medicaid.
Other recs:
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Self explanatory. One of the more important books I feel i've ever read.
Just MercySame topic as above
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
Details the US's history with opiates and into the oxy crisis that followed decades later
Slave Stealers: True Accounts of Slave Rescues-then and Now
Tough read about the current day on goings of child sex slave trafficking
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
The lighthearted book on my list – as an introvert, I found this book super helpful in better understanding myself
Thanks r/ booksuggestions community! Looking forward to building my to-read list back up!
by ccolagio
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– *A People’s History of the United States* by Howard Zinn
– *Between the World and Me* by Ta-Nehisi Coates
– *No Logo* by Naomi Klein
– *Amusing Ourselves to Death* by Neil Postman
– *Dark Money* by Jane Mayer
– *An Indigenous People’s History of the United States* by Roxanne Dunbar-Perez
– *Silent Spring* by Rachel Carson
– *The New Jim Crow* by Michelle Alexander
– *An Immense World* by Ed Yong
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
Profit over people – Noam Chomsky
yeah its sad that the dark parts of reddit has co-opted the meaning from an allegorical movie about almost the exact opposite meaning in the Matrix.