EVERYTHING YOU OWN IS BUILT ON THEFT.

From the cotton fields of the 19th century to the glowing screens of the modern office, the math of the global economy has always been rigged. This is the book that explains why.

Every day, you go to work. You create value. You solve problems. But at the end of the month, your paycheck reflects only a fraction of what you actually produced.

Where does the rest go?

In Theft Economy, provocateur Sally Fairfax strips away the comfortable myths of "innovation" and "entrepreneurship" to reveal a harsh, 400-year-old pattern of extraction. By tracing the direct line from the brutal quotas of the slave-driven cotton industry to the invisible ledgers of sharecropping and the modern deceptive wage, Fairfax proves that the system isn't broken?it's working exactly as intended.

Theft Economy is not a dry economics textbook. It is a slim, high-impact provocation for anyone who has ever looked at their bank account and felt like they were running a race they weren't meant to win.

The question of who creates value and who keeps it still defines our world. The answer is still ours to create.

Stop being a cog in the extraction machine.