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What is the book that changed your views? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by Different_pie@lemmy.world to c/books@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] Wabbitsmiles@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months 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.