In More Human former UK government insider attempts to propose a way to make life more suitable to the humans who have to live it instead of the corporations who seemingly dictate so much of the life humans live. While Steve hits some good notes, he also widely misses the mark on many others.
Hilton continually cites “good” examples of education or health care, or other services, run by national governments around the world that the US should use as a model, but then throws away a key component of their success by saying that the US version should be for profit. This is odd because he also talks about how bad for profit health care is, but says it’s the right way to do things.
In many ways this feels like a politicians book trying to turn into an intellectual. He knows of what he speaks, and totally misses many salient points at the same time.
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