This book was interesting. My biggest complaint about books like this is I am not sure what the alternative for members of the liberal class is. Hedges seems to be making the argument that people who need to work for a salary end up participating in a system that is ultimately exploitive. I am not sure what people should do instead- like just not work? Live outside of the system, not paying taxes? At the end of the day, people have to trade their labor for capital to survive- Hedges seems to think that we'd be better off if we did that trade in some other way? I concede that I am kind of dumb when it comes to a lot of these more abstract ideas. I just had a hard time understanding what he thinks is a better approach given the system that is currently in place.