SOCIAL BENCHMARKS: A Commonsense Critique of our Social and Economic Systems - Softcover

Hanks, Craig D.

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798262902217

Publisher: Independently published, 2025

Synopsis

Money Is an Illusion. Power Is Predation. Freedom Is at Stake.

What if everything you were taught about money, wealth, and security was a carefully maintained illusion?

Craig D. Hanks rips back the curtain on the systems we take for granted banks, taxes, capitalism, national debt and exposes them for what they really are: structures of control built on labor, inequality, and predation.

Inside this book, you’ll discover:

• Why money isn’t wealth and how this illusion fuels poverty and chaos.
• The hidden predatory principles that drive capitalism, war, and social decay.
• How ownership, monopoly, and debt quietly enslave entire nations.
• Why “productive labor” is the only true currency of value.
• The coming social crises no politician dares to confront.
• Bold, uncompromising, and impossible to ignore

Social Benchmark isn’t another dry economics manual. It’s a wake-up call a powerful critique that asks the questions most of us avoid: Who really benefits from your labor? Why must some always have less so others can have more? And how long can this system hold before collapse?

For readers of

Thomas Piketty (Capital in the 21st Century), Naomi Klein (This Changes Everything), or Yuval Noah Harari (Sapiens) this book will leave you questioning not just the economy, but the very foundations of society itself.

If you’re ready to challenge the myths you’ve been told about money and power start here.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798262902217
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 230