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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Sophie's world by Josvein Gaarder and unbearable lightness of being by Milan Kundera.

Read these in my late teen rebellious age, made me introspective and really emo (read: pretentious and annoying) and gave me a philosophical lens and human psychological lens in my relationships with others and with the world.

May not be typically mind-blowing books as they are, but coming in that time in my life, it shaped my world view.