Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

Despite (or because of) Meta's clumsy efforts to suppress this Facebook insider's expose, it has received a flurry of coverage, focused, unsurprisingly, on its more sleazily scandalous tales. If that's what you're looking for—a sort of nonfiction White Lotus about bad behavior in Four Seasons suites—you'll find plenty of it, but don't let that obscure that this might be one of the sharpest, most revealing accounts of the perversity of modern power you can find. Wynn-Williams is an excellent storyteller, her path from idealism to disgust is credible, and her intimate view of these instant billionaires—insular, hypocritical, cluelessly conniving, obsessed with insatiable growth and personal power, and carelessly destructive in true Tom and Daisy Buchanan style—is damning.