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A hilarious and lacerating look at the elite sociopathy wrecking the world, and a call to arms for how the rest of us can fight it. -- Molly Crabapple, author of Drawing Blood Survival of the Richest is more than a primer on a soulless worldview pervading all aspects of life. Defying fantasies of escape-from each other, from earthliness, from Earth-Rushkoff offers something at once more realistic and more imaginative: mutual regard, responsibility, and flourishing. In so doing, he mounts an impassioned defense of everything and everyone marked expendable in the fanatical pursuit of a blank slate. -- Jenny Odell Douglas Rushkoff's disguise as an 'influential futurist' has enabled him to serve as a mole on behalf of our species in the lair of the wannabe-posthuman. His report is both fierce and amazed in the face of capitalism's delusions; I for one am sharpening my pitchfork. -- Jonathan Lethem Rushkoff gives us a sober, scathing oddsmaking on the recursive wager of the ultra-rich: that they can insulate themselves from the world they're creating in their rush to insulate themselves from the world they're creating. -- Cory Doctorow Beyond eye-opening, this book is eye-popping. A master storyteller, Rushkoff brings to life perhaps the greatest challenge of our time, The Mindset that drives so much destructive behavior, and blinds us to solutions beyond new technology and consumption. A must read. -- Frances Moore Lappe, author or coauthor of 20 books, from Diet for a Small Planet to Daring Democracy Douglas Rushkoff's keen eye as a seasoned media analyst, combined with his flair and wit as a writer and a performer, shine in this book... How is it possible that people who have powerfully shaped our society and economy and have reaped enormous financial rewards in the process are doing everything possible to escape the world they've created?... This should give us all pause-if they want to escape their creations, why give them the power to rule our lives in the first place? -- Marina Gorbis / Executive Director, Institute for the Future With razor sharp insight, Rushkoff unwraps the dazzling facade of the technological dream, revealing the alarming Mindset that underlies promises of planetary salvation... Rushkoff demonstrates, the growth-based techno-solutionism inspired by the Mindset will drive our civilization toward collapse unless we begin to recognize capitalism as the underlying issue that needs to be addressed. -- Jeremy Lent, author of The Patterning Instinct and The Web of Meaning Douglas Rushkoff has always been a singular observer and thinker. Embedded near the epicenters of the digital revolution from its hopeful outlaw start through the oppressive mega-corporate current condition, he has never flinched along the way from honestly delivering fresh, radical, humane critiques of the emerging world. There are plenty of books decrying the horrors of 21st century monopoly capitalism and inequality, and the existential threats posed by technology and hellbent growth, but none quite like Survival of the Richest. Rushkoff is essential-not just a passionate visionary on the side of the angels, but the rare one who can write. -- Kurt Andersen, author of Evil Geniuses

Survival of the Richest is more than a primer on a soulless worldview pervading all aspects of life. Defying fantasies of escape-from each other, from earthliness, from Earth-Rushkoff offers something at once more realistic and more imaginative: mutual regard, responsibility, and flourishing. In so doing, he mounts an impassioned defense of everything and everyone marked expendable in the fanatical pursuit of a blank slate. -- Jenny Odell Douglas Rushkoff's disguise as an 'influential futurist' has enabled him to serve as a mole on behalf of our species in the lair of the wannabe-posthuman. His report is both fierce and amazed in the face of capitalism's delusions; I for one am sharpening my pitchfork. -- Jonathan Lethem Rushkoff gives us a sober, scathing oddsmaking on the recursive wager of the ultra-rich: that they can insulate themselves from the world they're creating in their rush to insulate themselves from the world they're creating. -- Cory Doctorow A hilarious and lacerating look at the elite sociopathy wrecking the world, and a call to arms for how the rest of us can fight it. -- Molly Crabapple, author of Drawing Blood Beyond eye-opening, this book is eye-popping. A master storyteller, Rushkoff brings to life perhaps the greatest challenge of our time, The Mindset that drives so much destructive behavior, and blinds us to solutions beyond new technology and consumption. A must read. -- Frances Moore Lappe, author or coauthor of 20 books, from Diet for a Small Planet to Daring Democracy Douglas Rushkoff's keen eye as a seasoned media analyst, combined with his flair and wit as a writer and a performer, shine in this book... How is it possible that people who have powerfully shaped our society and economy and have reaped enormous financial rewards in the process are doing everything possible to escape the world they've created?... This should give us all pause-if they want to escape their creations, why give them the power to rule our lives in the first place? -- Marina Gorbis, Executive Director, Institute for the Future With razor sharp insight, Rushkoff unwraps the dazzling facade of the technological dream, revealing the alarming Mindset that underlies promises of planetary salvation... Rushkoff demonstrates, the growth-based techno-solutionism inspired by the Mindset will drive our civilization toward collapse unless we begin to recognize capitalism as the underlying issue that needs to be addressed. -- Jeremy Lent, author of The Patterning Instinct and The Web of Meaning Douglas Rushkoff has always been a singular observer and thinker. Embedded near the epicenters of the digital revolution from its hopeful outlaw start through the oppressive mega-corporate current condition, he has never flinched along the way from honestly delivering fresh, radical, humane critiques of the emerging world. There are plenty of books decrying the horrors of 21st century monopoly capitalism and inequality, and the existential threats posed by technology and hellbent growth, but none quite like Survival of the Richest. Rushkoff is essential-not just a passionate visionary on the side of the angels, but the rare one who can write. -- Kurt Andersen, author of Evil Geniuses

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Douglas Rushkoff is professor of media theory and digital economics at Queens/CUNY. Named one of the world’s ten most influential intellectuals by MIT, he hosts the Team Human podcast and has written many award-winning books, including Media Virus, Program or Be Programmed, and Present Shock. He lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.

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