I swear, the more I read nonfiction the more I wish I didn’t. 

This succinctly and straightforwardly covers what happened to commerce during COVID and after and it is beyond enlightening; enraging, exhausting and disappointing to be sure, but enlightening nonetheless. 

Meat packing workers being sacrificed for the sake of shareholders, CDL drivers being overworked to exhaustion and beyond (next time you hear of a shortage, please, come reread the chapter and refresh your memory on what they are constantly being pushed to do), freight cargo companies exploiting literally everyone that utilizes them due to lack of regulations…the list truly does go on. 

Goodman does an incredible deep dive into the intricate layers that intersect one another and how we are at the mercy of commerce and capitalism - and what needs to change if we are ever to escape from it. He is the type of journalist we could use more of.