Capitalism: Seeing the Cage, Building the Exit
"There is no alternative." We've been told this so many times it feels like truth. But what if the cage was always unlocked?
This reading journey starts by dismantling the myth that capitalism is inevitable or natural. Move through the lived reality of working poverty. Find dark humor in a system that sells oppression back to the oppressed. Then, discover that humans have organized themselves in wildly different ways for millennia and we can do it again.
From ideology to lived experience to alternatives. This is your exit strategy.
Capitalist Realism
She worked the minimum wage jobs. The math doesn't work.
READ – REFLECT → RESIST
Nickel and Dimed
The Sellout
History was never inevitable. Humans chose this. They can choose again.
READ – REFLECT → RESIST
The Dawn of Everything
Department of Childish Revolution
For the adults raising the future:
They save every coin in a jar. For one perfect chair.
READ – REFLECT → RESIST
A Chair for My Mother
Toothpaste costs too much. He makes his own. Then sells it.
READ – REFLECT → RESIST
The Toothpaste Millionaire
Wrong place, wrong time. Now DHS is watching him. He fights back.
READ – REFLECT → RESIST
Little Brother
Debt is 5,000 years old. It was always about power.
READ – REFLECT → RESIST
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Follow the money. Question everything.
Kids are natural economists — they know when something's unfair. These books meet them there: picture books about working families and community care, middle-grade stories where kids question price-gouging and advertising, YA that shows surveillance capitalism and teen resistance, and dense theory made readable. This is how you raise kids who ask "who profits?" before they ask "how much?"
Follow the money. Question everything.
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