Add $50 Trillion and Shake makes only passing reference to analysis of what is wrong with society. We already have tens of thousands of books out there that have done this, and although a certain amount of this is something that needs to be done, it's time we stopped merely talking about it (putting forward solutions that could never be implemented in the real world is also "merely talking about it"). Add $50 Trillion and Shake is a document that deals with solutions to our biggest problems that are implementable in the real world; solutions that will not only be acceptable to those with money and power, but solutions that such people will wholeheartedly embrace because they will be richer if they adopt them. I think that most people actually need some context to understand that last sentence properly, so please allow me to elaborate:

Putting aside the contents of this book for a minute, we could actually solve every single major problem in the world today with the ideas put forward from a hundred different sources, but we don’t because some or all of those in power (meaning anyone in a position to impact a decision), in what ever problem area we are discussing, fear loss of power, or loss of money, or loss of prestige, or loss of consortium, or loss of anything that they have now that they believe will not continue on after they adopt, whatever it is they are being asked to adopt. The new direction posited by this book is specifically designed to ensure that human beings will not feel any of this fear, because H3 solutions are specifically designed to give those in power more of all of these things, and in every single case inside more than two dozen major global reforms. The two smallest reforms will completely solve the issues of overfishing and deforestation by capitalizing the industries on a global scale, and by adding another two to three trillion dollars into these industries; that is the scale of what is being discussed in this book. And we're talking about Hard Assets commerce here, none of this money pushing around other money.

It is easy to get the impression that this description is for an organization rather than a book, and that's because the two are inseparable. Even though it is not written in the form of an operations manual, Add $50 Trillion and Shake is an operations manual for H3. It describes the attitudes and culture that will grow over decades, it describes what it will do, and how it is going to do it.
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