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Lewis kori • Edited

I just completed Confessions of an economic hitman by John Perkins. One of the biggest takeaways I had was on having the courage to do the right thing no matter how difficult it may. It emboldens one to look past their flaws and tap into their conscious to do what is right.

Here's how he signed off

However, this book is not a prescription; it is a confession, pure and simple. It is the confession of a man who allowed himself to become a pawn, an economic hit man; a man who bought into a corrupt system because it offered so many perks, and because buying in was easy to justify; a man who knew better but who could always find excuses for his own greed, for exploiting desperate people and pillaging the planet; a man who took full advantage of the fact that he was born into one of the wealthiest societies history has ever known, and who also could pity himself because his parents were not at the top of the pyramid; a man who listened to his teachers, read the textbooks on economic development, and then followed the example of other men and women who legitimatize every action that promotes global empire...