What is THE RIGGED GAME about?

The book exposes how the wealthiest 1% systematically built an economic system designed to concentrate wealth and keep ordinary people poor. It reveals the hidden mechanisms of wealth concentration from Dutch financial innovations to modern inequality.

Who should read this book?

Anyone who wants to understand how extreme inequality was created, why the economic system seems rigged against ordinary people, and what can be done to change it. Essential reading for students of economics, politics, and social justice.

What makes this investigation unique?

Rodriguez combines historical analysis with leaked documents, insider interviews, and forensic investigation to trace wealth concentration techniques from medieval times to today. The book reveals viable alternatives and practical solutions.

How does this book relate to current events?

The book explains how current economic crises, market crashes, and bailouts aren't accidents but features of a system designed to transfer wealth upward. It provides context for understanding today's inequality crisis.

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THE RIGGED GAME: How the 1% Built a System to Keep You Poor

By Michael Rodriguez

First edition: August 2025
Published by Resource Economics Press
New York • London • Singapore

ISBN: 979-8231144044 (Hardcover)
ISBN: 979-8231940332 (eBook)

About the Book

Picture this: You wake up tomorrow morning to discover that ten men—just ten human beings—have accumulated more wealth than 3.8 billion people combined. Half the planet’s entire population. Every construction worker in Bangladesh, every teacher in Brazil, every farmer in Nigeria—all of them together possess less than these ten individuals.

You’d think this was dystopian fiction. But it’s happening right now, today, while you’re reading these words.

Welcome to the most perfectly rigged game in human history.

Rodriguez spent eighteen months following money trails through leaked documents, court records, and offshore databases that most people will never see. He interviewed former investment bankers who built the modern financial system, ex-government officials who watched it take over their countries, and reformed money launderers who helped hide trillions from public view.

What he found will fundamentally change how you see the world around you. This isn’t a story about exceptional entrepreneurship or revolutionary innovation. This is the story of a system so expertly designed to concentrate wealth that it makes the pharaohs of ancient Egypt look like amateurs.

What You’ll Discover

🤖 The Dutch Innovation That Started It All

How 17th-century Amsterdam bankers created the first systematic wealth concentration machine, establishing techniques still used by today’s financial elite to drain resources from entire nations.

💰 The $2 Trillion Secret They Don’t Want You to Know

Why capitalism isn’t broken—it’s working exactly as designed. Every crisis, every market crash, every “too big to fail” bailout isn’t a bug in the system, it’s a feature.

🎭 Adam Smith vs. Karl Marx: The Battle for Capitalism’s Soul

The intellectual war that still shapes economic policy today, and why understanding their debate is crucial for recognizing how the “invisible hand” became a visible fist of concentrated power.

🌐 How John D. Rockefeller Built the Modern Monopoly Template

The systematic techniques pioneered by 19th-century robber barons that evolved into today’s corporate empires, from Standard Oil to Amazon.

⚠️ Why Every Dollar in Their Accounts Represents Your Lost Opportunity

How wealth concentration isn’t just about rich people getting richer—it’s about the systematic transfer of resources away from schools, infrastructure, and healthcare.

🔮 The Viable Alternatives They’re Terrified You’ll Discover

Proven cooperative models and democratic ownership structures already working around the world, and why they represent the oligarchy’s greatest fear.

Key Revelations

How the wealthiest 1% built a system that automatically channels money upward, regardless of merit or innovation
The specific financial engineering techniques that turned market capitalism into wealth extraction machinery
Why deglobalization might finally break the concentration system—and what that means for your financial future
The real reason wages have stagnated while asset prices soared: it’s not technology, it’s intentional design
How offshore banking networks evolved from Dutch innovations into today’s $32 trillion shadow economy
The cooperation models already proving that democratic ownership can outperform extractive capitalism

This isn’t just analysis—it’s a roadmap for understanding the most important economic transformation of our time. The rigged game can only continue as long as enough people keep playing by rules written by and for the winners.

About the Author

Michael Rodriguez is an investigative journalist and economic analyst with over fifteen years of experience exposing the hidden mechanisms of wealth concentration and financial power. His previous works include the internationally acclaimed Dark Money Empire, along with The Dopamine Dealers, Bilderberg Exposed, The AI Emperor, and Digital Dollar Dystopia.

Rodriguez’s investigative methodology combines traditional journalism with deep historical analysis, utilizing insider sources, financial documents, court records, and leaked materials to reveal how concentrated economic power operates across centuries. For The Rigged Game, he conducted extensive research into historical archives, interviewed former investment bankers, examined derivative trading floors, and analyzed cooperative enterprises worldwide.

His investigations have been featured in major financial publications worldwide, and his analysis of wealth concentration continues to influence policy debates about inequality, financial regulation, and alternative economic systems.

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