You Get What You Pay For

YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR is a data-driven exploration of what the author views – with substantial backing – as the absurdity of the financially-driven US electoral system. Michael Rizzo’s book is designed to be interactive, hopping backwards and forwards between narrative and exploration of various websites that highlight the sheer extent of the involvement of lobby groups and financial muscle in Washington. Citing examples ranging from the Supreme Court to the bizarre way in which the pharmaceutical industry presents to the public, this is a quick-fire text that cleverly sticks to facts rather than hyperbole, and in doing so feels like a knife in the heart, if not an entirely new one, to the whole concept of the US as a people-led democracy.