What if hatred doesn't cause inequality—but inequality causes hatred?
The Economics of Exploitation traces how economic exploitation has always come first, with prejudice manufactured afterward to justify the taking. From slavery to convict leasing to algorithmic discrimination, the pattern repeats: wealth is transferred from the many to the few, and ideologies of inferiority emerge to make the transfer feel natural.
The book follows this framework from ancient empires through Reagan's policies and Trump's rise, to the AI systems that may either entrench these patterns forever or finally see through them. Rigorous and unflinching, it offers what matters most: clarity about how the system actually works.