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The Sport and Prey of Capitalists
- Narrateur(s): Sarah Pesek
- Durée: 8 h et 58 min
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Description
Why are we selling off the impressive public enterprises we often battled as a nation to create?
In the early 1900s, thousands of Canadians battled wealthy interests, winning control of Niagara Falls and creating a public power company. Another popular movement succeeded in creating Canada’s public broadcasting system to counter American dominance of the airwaves. And a Canadian doctor established a publicly owned laboratory that saved countless lives by producing affordable medications, contributing to medical breakthroughs and helping to eradicate smallpox throughout the world.
But in recent decades, we have allowed our inspiring public enterprises to be privatized and our vital public programs downsized, leaving us increasingly dominated by the forces of private greed that rule the marketplace.
In The Sport and Prey of Capitalists, Linda McQuaig challenges the dogma of privatization, which has defined our political era. She argues that now more than ever, as we grapple with climate change and income inequality, we need to expand, not shrink, our public sphere.
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Au global4 out of 5 stars
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Performance1 out of 5 stars
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars
- Cristiano Godinho
- 2023-06-23
Fine book, terrible reading
Linda McQuaig’s book provides a much-needed Canadian perspective on the current state of capitalism and its consequences on the economy, social programs and the environment, among other factors. It’s well-researched and accessible, and it dismantles many myths that have been pushed though by corporate business and their counterparts in government. The reader, however, seems to miss the point completely and delivers a condescending, drama-injected performance that makes it hard to get through the book, much less grasp its very important points. I hope Ms. McQuaig’s next book that gets added to Audible is treated with a bit more respect.
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