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People's Grip: The Invisible Hands Behind Billionaires and State Leaders
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Publisher: Bukhan Purvan Zayabat
Published: May 31 2025
Pages: 564
Weight: 1.42
Height: 1.26 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In People's Grip: The Invisible Hands Behind Billionaires and State Leaders, award-winning author explores a startling truth: every billionaire fortune and every head of state owes its power to ordinary people. From the pensions that fund stock markets to the votes that elect presidents; from the labors behind every product to the digital data that drives tech empires-our collective choices build and sustain today's elite. Yet, when those elites trample on human dignity, conscience, and freedom, they not only betray us but undermine their own legitimacy.
Through vivid case studies, historical parallels, and plainspoken analysis, this book shows how invisible hands shape the architecture of power. You'll discover how consumer habits, labor dynamics, and electoral consent create the very structures that allow individuals to amass staggering wealth or seize political authority. But you'll also see how fear, distraction, and apathy turn consent into complicity, empowering elites who place profit and control above people's rights.
Far from a call to passive despair, People's Grip is a clarion for reclaiming authorship of our shared destiny. In the Digital Age-when global networks amplify both surveillance and solidarity-we hold the levers of control. When we demand transparency in boardrooms and town halls, when we channel our dollars into ethical markets, when we refuse to legitimize leaders who erode our freedoms, we awaken a new era of stewardship.
By illuminating the hidden mechanisms behind elite power, this book equips readers to transform passive lending of authority into active guardianship of human dignity. Because in the end, power is not owned-it's lent. And when it forgets its source, it must be returned.
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