You are not bad with money. Something was done to you.
Since 1978, the work you do produces almost twice as much. Your pay went up 26 percent.
Where did the rest go?
Half of American renters can't afford their rent by the government's own definition. Two-thirds of bankruptcies have a hospital bill in the room. You did everything you were told and you are still four hundred dollars short every month before anything goes wrong.
Here's what nobody told you: this has happened twice before, and both times it worked exactly as designed.
They fenced the land. Then the factory. Now they're fencing something you produce every single day without being paid for it - and they've built the arrangement so well that you blame yourself for the results.
Techno-Feudalism is not a book about greedy billionaires. There's no conspiracy in it. It's a receipt - pulled from court records, leaked IRS files, and lobbying disclosures - that shows exactly what was taken, when, and by what mechanism. Along the way it reveals why the law does not actually require your employer to put profits over you, why the man who argues loudest for taxing the rich paid a tax rate of one-tenth of one percent, and what happened to the CEO who tried to pay his workers well.
Then it hands you something older than Rome: two rules that two civilizations wrote down before anyone thought to put up a fence, and the reason the people who first demanded a weekend were called radicals too.
Eric Leo is not an economist. He makes music and runs small businesses in a small town in Michigan, which means he meets this economy the way you do - from underneath, finding out the terms after he's already agreed to them.
You've felt this your whole adult life.
Pick up the book and find out why it's happening to you.
