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Evil and the Mountain Ungreed
Paperback
Series: Evil and the Mountain, Book 1
ISBN13: 9781966014034
Publisher: Publishdrive
Published: Nov 1 2024
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Ungreed is not a polite economics book, a civics explainer, or a neutral meditation on wealth. It is a work of satire, philosophical dialogue, and political indictment. Through confrontational exchanges between professor and pupil, Esme Mees turns greed into the central subject and asks what kind of society is built when power, wealth, and cruelty are treated as intelligence, discipline, and virtue.
The book argues that obscene accumulation is not an unfortunate side effect of the system but one of its organizing principles. It tracks the moral logic behind exploitation: that prosperity proves worth, that suffering signals failure, and that those left hungry, precarious, or exhausted are somehow to blame for the violence done to them. In that world, greed is protected as aspiration, hoarding is recast as merit, and social abandonment becomes common sense.
Written in sharp, compact dialogue, Ungreed blends social commentary, anti-capitalist critique, class analysis, and dark humor. It is a book about billionaire ideology, market fundamentalism, the normalization of cruelty, and the fantasy that a society can survive while rewarding predation at the top and blaming pain at the bottom. It does not flatter the culture of wealth. It names it.
For readers interested in greed, capitalism, class power, billionaire culture, political satire, moral collapse, and literary social criticism, Ungreed offers a fierce and unusual voice. It is a refusal of greed's language and an attack on the social order that keeps calling greed civilization.
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