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What is the book that changed your views? (lemmy.world)

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Please share books that affected your worldview or changed your thoughts.

For me, it’s A People’s History of the World by Chris Harman. I studied business and work in finance, and before reading it, I never questioned the idea that capitalism was just the natural way of things. This book made me realize that capitalism is man made. It had a beginning and it can have an end. Wealth and poverty are not just inevitable, they are created by human decisions. That perspective really shook me.

Do you have a book that had a similar impact on you?

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[–] 2fm@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Hope I don't get flak for this one, but:

Jurassic Park. Of everything in this book only one thing really stuck with me. The park was overrun with dinos because the computer counted the ones it meeded to, then just stopped counting. It found its target of, say, 2 raptors. I didnt need to keep count of the others because it located its expected two. Good enough.

I'm on mobile so its a little hard to write out my thoughts and find accurate quotes and notes, but I think you'll get what I'm saying.

That's the earliest idea of a confirmational bias I can remeber when I was much younger, and I think helped me with critical thinking moving on.