Poor countries are chasing behind rich ones, and poor people are just steps behind, each on independent roads, right? Jason Hickel proves how wrong and misleading this narrative is. From the history and consequences of colonialism to the military interventions throughout multiple poor countries, to the financial world structures built to prevent the autonomy and ‘development’ of the Global South, including the immoral debts that slave poor nations, the world is rigged and keeps poor countries poor, which also maintains access to cheap labor and to natural resources to the Global North. Jason draws parallels between Latin America, Africa, and Asia, with heartbreaking anecdotes and quotes from all over the world. One of the most emblematic figures from this book is that for every dollar that enters the ‘Global Sough’ through ‘aid’, 24 dollars leave to the ´Global North’, through ‘debt’ repayment, climate change impacts, tax holidays, and TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, the WTO agreement that protects patents, heavily pushed and supported by Bill Gates). The world has been actively created to exploit poorest countries. I have never seen the world again after reading this book