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  • Life After Capitalism

  • The Meaning of Wealth, the Future of the Economy, and the Time Theory of Money
  • By: George Gilder
  • Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
  • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (16 ratings)

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Life After Capitalism

By: George Gilder
Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
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For over two-hundred years, capitalist systems have overtaken the global economy, spreading near-universal growth and opening the floodgates for limitless human potential.

Yet something is going terribly wrong in the world economy.

Creativity and faith in the future have been traded for a slippery slope of cautionary paranoia, popular despair, and political overreach by leaders who promise to hold back the tides, control the weather, and print prosperity with little clue as to what is actually going on.

This divergence did not begin with the Obama administration, the Trump presidency, the Gates Foundation, or George Soros, says leading futurist George Gilder. The cognitive dissonance and its harvest of confusion and despair reflects a deep misunderstanding at the heart of capitalism itself.

In Life After Capitalism, national bestselling author George Gilder explains how economics is not an incentive system but an information system. Redefining capitalism for the modern age, he reveals how free enterprise is a mind driven system, material resources are essentially as infinite as atoms, and what governs economic growth is human creativity—not merely a Marxist class struggle for power.

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It’s About Time…

It’s About Time…The realization of Time is the only money is becoming widespread. Keep spreading the news.

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Another inspiring book by Gilder

My concern is that emergency socialism (as Gilder describes) has evolved into full communism...that might be the path in life after capitalism. if personal ingenuity and faith in the Creator are embraced, life after capitalism will truly be glorious.

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Time value of money

For me, it is an evolution of capitalism instead of an elimination of it. Thoroughly enjoyable!

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Political, self-important, and not very insightful.

I loved "life after google," but this book lacks everything but the eloquence of the former. Gone is the colorful, well researched examples painting and interpreting a landscape of the subject. Instead Gilder piles on platitudes and one-dimensional, unhelpful, and unoriginal simplifications of world economics. Yes, time is the only real currency, but this is hardly more than a vacationer's afternoon musing, and the concept is expressed with that same level of depth. The reality of economy remains untouched in this book; the complex interplay of finite resources, time, and the expansion of scope by technological advancement is dismissed by a reframing of the well know platitude, "time is money," as some all-encompassing insight. The starving man does not lack time. This book feels like a slow evening on fox news. I stopped reading when the author took a detour to lambast the smarmy materialistic determinists of the 80's (who seem relevant now only to authors like Gilder) with an astoundingly irrelevant and poorly framed metaphysical argument for the existence of God by the procession of idea from mind. (bad epistemology) Sure, I'd love to pick this guy's brain, but I don't think there's much here.

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