"Conflict Investment", where financial firms finance warring factions, insurgents, revolutionaries, etc in exchange for a couple of percentage points of future GDP.
Given that governments of all stripes readily engage in that sort of activity...and have done so for time immemorial...one wonders why the author chose
FINANCIAL FIRMS (!)
to hang his allegorical angst upon.
And in this competitive world of finance...
As opposed to some non-competitive world of finance?
...promotions are through road rage. Quite a good read[.]
I've got a much better option in that vein of storytelling, if I may recommend such - though it's not a book. (I seldom read anything but nonfiction books, anyway.) To that end:
images.amazon.com
A veritable tour de force of post-apocalyptic science fiction, perhaps a decade before its time. I was once told that the entire script for the film was only six or seven pages long, which is quite believable once you've watched it; there's very little dialogue.
And for the aspiring (or practicing) conspiracy theorist, socialist, or frustrated English professor hellbent on finding commentary or symbolism in the film, the theme of social decay amidst the hypervaluation of oil - completely devaluing human life and pushing the world into a tribal, anarcho-syndicalist structure - will no doubt inflame and inspire their deepest senses of outrage and activism.
:-)
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