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Big Dirty Money: The Shocking Injustice and Unseen Cost of White Collar Crime by Jennifer Taub
thebrainstorm215's review
3.0
I dont really get into politics. In fact, I consider myself a centrist, as I often find myself agreeing with both left and right wingers. With that being said, I found this book to be completely biased. Most of the book was about Trump. We get it. He's a crook; most politicians are. Honestly, I dont even care if you call out Trump for his BS, or the many Republicans that she named and their crimes...However, when you only call out 1 side for their crimes, and fail to mention even 1 Democrat, you lose all credibility and respect from me. I wanted to give this book 2 stars. The only reason I am going to it 3 is because it wasn't ALL politics. There was a huge part about other white-collar criminals that I very much enjoyed. In fact, if the author had left out politics altogether, I would have given it 5 stars. If she had at least called out Democrats, as well as Republicans, I would have given it 4 stars. Be less biased next time and call out ALL criminals, regardless of their political affiliation.
bootman's review
5.0
Go get this book ASAP. I can’t remember how I stumbled across it, but I’m super glad it was recommended. Jennifer Taub did a fantastic job breaking down how the wealthy live by a different set of rules than the rest of us. I don’t understand how anyone could read this book and think we live in a fair, equal, and meritocratic society. Our prisons are filled with people who have done far less than the white-collar criminals Taub describes in this book. Each chapter has stories of rich people who got away with major crimes.
It’ll make you mad, but you should read this. The United States is not the country we’re told it is. If you have money, you live in a completely different world than the middle and lower classes. We should all take issue with the prison industrial complex and how peoples’ lives are ruined for something as stupid as drug posession while there are multimillionaires who are destroying lives, and in the case of Big Pharma, actually killing people.
Get this book and buy some copies for your friends.
It’ll make you mad, but you should read this. The United States is not the country we’re told it is. If you have money, you live in a completely different world than the middle and lower classes. We should all take issue with the prison industrial complex and how peoples’ lives are ruined for something as stupid as drug posession while there are multimillionaires who are destroying lives, and in the case of Big Pharma, actually killing people.
Get this book and buy some copies for your friends.
benrogerswpg's review
3.0
It was a good read!
Very heavy on American companies and Trump (GMC, CITI Bank, Russia). It didn't go into too much detail on things really affecting life in Canada (money laundering, fentanyl, housing crisis, etc.). However, it did make great cases for increased regulation, task forces, and accountability/enforcement.
It also was great at outlining how all forms of corruption affect everyday citizens.
3.5/5
Very heavy on American companies and Trump (GMC, CITI Bank, Russia). It didn't go into too much detail on things really affecting life in Canada (money laundering, fentanyl, housing crisis, etc.). However, it did make great cases for increased regulation, task forces, and accountability/enforcement.
It also was great at outlining how all forms of corruption affect everyday citizens.
3.5/5
miguelf's review
4.0
There’s a simple statistic at the beginning of this book that “White Collar” crime costs victims between $300B to $800B per year, dwarfing all other street level crime. And yet Americans arm themselves to the teeth apparently to protect themselves for the latter, while not giving too much care for the former. In this book Taub outlines many instances of this type of crime mainly at the corporate level and outlines six key recommendations intended to combat this. The book itself is a bit like one that she references (Jesse Eisinger’s “The Chickenshit Club”) in documenting both many instances of corporate malfeasance and listing the many reasons that they are not being actively prosecuted. Like that book, it’s quite interesting but not necessarily what one would describe as a page turner. That’s a bit sad considering the negative effect this has on our lives. The recommendations given are admirable, but as Taub says the fact that these are viewed as victimless crimes will continue to hamper having these needed fixes becoming implemented.
nsfinch's review
informative
tense
fast-paced
5.0
Well, this is another nonfiction book that made me really mad! Like, I already know that rich people get away with SO MUCH, but this book just LAYS IT ALL RIGHT OUT THERE and it's INFURIATING. This is so readable and accessible, you will just tear through it, getting madder all the time.
The audiobook narrator, Eliza Foss, did a stellar job--she sounded angry reading it too. The print version of the book has the right kind of endnotes: you know, the kind with superscript numbers that have a corresponding note at the end with a matching number, so it's easy to find.
The audiobook narrator, Eliza Foss, did a stellar job--she sounded angry reading it too. The print version of the book has the right kind of endnotes: you know, the kind with superscript numbers that have a corresponding note at the end with a matching number, so it's easy to find.
samle1e's review
3.0
I was more outraged at the lawyers defending these scum than the scum themselves.