Reddit reviews The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King

I enjoyed this book

https://www.amazon.com/Fish-That-Ate-Whale-Americas/dp/1250033314

I've learned that from The fish that ate the whale. Interesting read and one learns a thing or two about bananas.

For the interesting and brutal history of the United Fruit Company I recommend the book The Fish that Ate the Whale.

https://www.amazon.com/Fish-That-Ate-Whale-Americas/dp/1250033314

I don't buy into the idea of freedom as an all or nothing option, and I certainly don't view it in a vacuum. I'm happy to take Amazon's freedom to be given to people. We aren't talking about a mom & pop local wholesaler, Amazon is a trillion dollar company with multi-trillion dollar potential (Jeff Bezos likely wants Amazon to replace the Internet and brick & mortar retail). I don't give a fuck about their "rights."

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Read about United Fruit on Wikipedia or this book. Unchecked companies do shit like overthrow governments, let their workers get killed with untested chemicals, and all sorts of other unsavory behavior. Amazon treats their workers like garbage and even patented a worker cage, so I have no interest in giving a company like that the authority to determine which books pass the ethical sniff test. I am 100% OK with them being treated like a utility that people are entitled to, especially as a platform for selling books with controversial ideas.

and i'd just read The Fish that ate the Whale over summer, too

http://www.amazon.com/The-Fish-That-Ate-Whale/dp/1250033314

also, everyone knows Jamaicans are the ones with the cocaine. at least quantity.

If anyone is really interested, there is a really good book about one of the main participants of this: Sam Zemmurray. The book is called The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King. As a Honduran, it totally blew my mind learning about what these people did.