The New Confessions of An Economic Hit Man by John Perkins Chapter Five Saving a Country From Communism

 In this chapter, John got a look at what third-world poverty really is. He came face to face with the reality of what corporatocracy does to nations. You have a few with every luxury life has to offer and next to them is absolute poverty. Hoovervilles. Shacks that are barely standing. A strong guff of wind will knock them down. John had seen classmates in New Hampshire come to school in tattered clothes and shoes held together with willpower alone. Indonesia was a whole other level.

During his first night at the Intercontinental Hotel in Jakarta, he was at a meeting on the hotel's top floor. It was luxurious. Compared to what the citizens were having. John acknowledged that these big corporations fund colleges, so no. Professors are paid not to warn students what macroeconomics really is. And what it does to people who aren't on the top of the pyramid. Macroeconomics makes the rich richer and the poor even poorer. This should've been a moral awakening. No…