Hello, it's me once again, Riley. And you can tell that it is just me because there's no one

trying to talk over me. There's no one talking about soup or Yu-Gi-o or whatever it is they're doing

now. Idiots. I have no need to call for Nate to do anything because it's a Riley solo episode today. Yes, that's right. Once again,

I have opened a book, looked at all the words, turned the pages, made some notes, and I'm ready

to share my thoughts with you for Riley's Comedy Book Club episode, whichever one it is now.

I have been reading The Death of Homo Economicus by Peter Fleming, who is a professor of business and society at the

City University of London. Don't let the title fool you.

Peter Fleming is not a business school professor who's going to try to talk to you about like, you know,

six ways to jumpstart your marketing department

or a, you know, growth hacking strategy for accountancy fraud.

No, this is, he's talking about the relationship of business and society.

And I think his book, The Death of Home Economicus, out now on Pluto Press, really, out actually for quite

a while. It's just one I was sort of interested in reading, is about kind of the ways in which

I think at once sort of the actual businesses have sort of colonized a lot

of the way that we live by sort of taking over more and more aspects of, you know,

just society like fucking privatization and shit, but also how the ways of business thinking have taken over more and more elements

of our personal lives. And the book itself is interesting. I think what's interesting to me

about it is that it brings a lot of other lines of thinking together. So as I sort of go through

kind of what it says and what I think,

anyone who's listened to previous comedy book clubs will sort of recognize a lot of the shit

in there that I've discussed in, you know, previous episodes. Like we'll sort of see,

um, we'll see, we'll see a lot of like the sort of monetization of feeling that we talked about in psychopolitics

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