Awesome. Thanks for doing this so I don't have to! You're like the brave souls who review Star Wars: The Acolyte and Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

Beckert is, rightly, fascinated by how differently we live than any other time or place in human history — down to the minuscule things like cooking our own food or outsourcing our mating opportunities to a subscription app

Yes yes. I think this is all VErY fASCinAtiNg. Another really fascinating difference about modern life is that the elite class doesn't own slaves. IMAGINE THAT