As good as this book is , it is difficult to review.
For over twenty years corporations have employed numerous means, from the merely mean spirited to the deliberately illegal to convert retirement systems into income for the few. Clearly, one of the reason why the corporate right is so afraid of the term "income redistribution" is that they have to demonize the term even as they focus on "income distribution" meaning the ongoing process of pushing ever more of the planet's wealth into ever fewer hands. Somehow the same Americans who take pride in not believing corporation advertisements, eat up every word the same corporations pump-out when the subject is regulations, anti-unionism or just delivering on the promise of trickle-down.
This book details some of the more smarmy efforts that have been employed to "Profit and Plunder form the Nest Eggs of American Workers". To repeat them here is to emphasize my politics over the reading experience inherent to the book.
The book itself is a fairly easy read. Some explanations are complex, but even if you miss the details you can grasp the import of the concept. Others have noted that this book should have some examples of the equations used in tax law or determining retirement benefit amounts. This is a valid point. My suggestion that they should be in an annex, leaving the less technically adept reader with an uninterrupted read.
This helps to emphasize that this is not a technicians book. The irony here is that recounted examples of employees fighting back frequently revolve around individuals who had or learned the arcane ways of retirement calculations. In the case of IBM, the assumption by leadership that employees were not skilled in this type of problem solving was as ridicules as it sounds and cost IBM leadership more than some discomfort.
Given the tone of the national political debate, it may be that political right will ignore this book in droves. For those who want to hear more than what is already in their respective political echo chambers, this is a book to read before you vote.
Some one else has said it in an Amazon review: Corporations Bad, People Good. This is a valid summery. If you want examples, without getting drowned in the math, this is a good book.
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