Two Hundred Pharaohs, Five Billion Slaves

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This researched underground classic was first published in 1999 and has been heavily plagiarised by would-be youth-movement leaders ever since. Predating the wave of corporately contrived 'anti-globalisation' books cobbled together to exploit the growing disquiet at the megawealth of today's global rich, it offers a more profoundly hopeful view of human progress.Two Hundred Pharaohs, Five Billion Slaves examines the rise of the international bourgeoisie and the creation of their world of intense leisure shopping. Starting from the thesis that the whole of capitalist society can be viewed as nothing more sophisticated than a vast, unstable network of constantly rising and tumbling pyramid schemes, it highlights the fact that only a handful of socially isolated and insecure billionaires (the 'pharaohs' of its title) can hope to benefit from a system that squanders the immense potential of modern technology. The strength of this work is derived from its exposition of how this system alters our built environment and determines the very fabric of our daily lives.Avowedly 'post-utopian' in outlook, Two Hundred Pharaohs comprises one of the very few attempts in literature to describe what daily life would be like in a communistic world society.