Review: The Tale of Ginger and Pickles

The Tale of Ginger and Pickles by Beatrix Potter
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I politely disagree with Lesley's review. While the book is strongly slanted in favor of a cash-only economy, it ignores the social value of credit, and too, it ignores the importance of a social safety-net. Dangerously regressive, this book attempts to inculcate a false feeling of financial equality between not only individuals of specific species, but also between all species. Furthermore, it perpetuates harmful stereotypes of terriers and encourages police profiling of same.

I bought it. Well, sort of, I got the free copy produced by scores of volunteers working separately and together to digitize all copyright-free literature. Socialism: 1; capitalism: 0. Hah!

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