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This book argues that technology does not automatically make life better for everyone. Many inventions raise productivity, but the gains often go to people with power, while workers face harder work, lower pay, or more control and surveillance.

but the message can feel repetitive because it uses many cases to prove the same idea.

This book left me with a very clear takeaway: development is not about perfect policies or copying “successful models,” but about incentives. Countries move forward when those in power decide that growing the economy is safer and more rewarding than fighting or extracting quick rents..