My classmates would go home at Christmas vacation
and they would come back with these amazing stories of parties and orgies and women and so on...
This is a boy's school so there's all kinds of crazy stories.
And I'd spend Christmas vacation throwing a basketball at a gym.
So I always wanted to have what I thought they had.
So I went to business school. When I graduated from business school
I was recruited by a big consulting firm
and I was flying first class around the world.
I was staying in the best hotels. I was having dinner with presidents
and beautiful women.
Before I got the job I was interviewed on a lie detector for two days.
And they knew that what I wanted
was money, power and sex.
And my job was really what we call an economic hitman.
Go to countries that have resources our corporations want,
like oil or gas,
and arrange huge loans to that country from the World Bank
and the money had to be used to pay US corporations to built infrastructure projects in those countries.
But the money never actually went to the country.
At the beginning I thought what I was doing was the right thing.
Because I had been taught in business school, and the economic models show that if you invest in infrastructure,
power plants, highways, the economy grows.
And it does. Statistically.
But the money went to our own corporations, who made big profits.
And then in the end the country couldn't pay off the debt.
So we go back and say: "Hey, since you can't pay your debt,
sell your oil, gas, whatever resource, cheap to our corporations without any environmental or social regulations."
Or: "Let us built a military base in your country."
Things like that. It really became an empire.
And in the few cases where the leaders of country wouldn't accept the deals that I was offering,
people we call "jackals" went in, and these were people who either overthrew the government
or assassinated their leaders.
First class airplanes, best hotels, best restaurants, lots of women and presidents and so on.
And I was really unhappy. It was very difficult for me to get out
because I was getting what I thought was everything I wanted.
I had this incredible moment when I just realized that even though I was living what seemed to be the ideal life...
I was taking a lot of Valium, I was drinking a lot of alcohol,
I was going through psychoanalysis... I was miserable.
I stayed in that job for ten years.
And then I began to really understand how bad it was.
So I think I had to go down deep into the dark side
in order to come up into the light,
where I saw how bad the system was.
And now I can develop my life to try to change it.
I started to write a book to expose the system.
We call it "Expose", where I would interview lots of other people who had jobs like mine,
and the "jackals". And very soon I got several phone calls.
Anonymous voices threatening my life and my daughter's life.
And I was scared because I knew these people could do that.
And then soon after that I got invited out to dinner by the president of Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation,
which was one of the biggest consulting firms in the world in those days.
And he says: "John, you have a very good resume.
You were chief economist of one of our mayor rivals.
We would like to use you resume in proposals.
You don't have to do any work, and I am prepared to write you a check tomorrow for 500,000 USD."
And then he looks at me and says: "Just don't write that book."
So I'm being threatened and I'm being offered a bribe.
My daughter's being threatened, her life, and I'm being offered a lot of money.
What would you do? What would you do?
I took the money.
In 9/11 I am in the Amazon with a group of people. When 9/11 happened in New York.
What I knew was that the system I had been part of was somehow responsible in some way.
I knew I had to write the book.
I had to expose the system that was going on in the world.
This time I decided I wasn't going to tell anyone I was writing the book.
You just write the book and get it out there.
Once it's out there, if they do something to you, the book sells.
First of all, the book was rejected by 39 publishers.
All the big publishing houses said no.
It was because they were afraid of it.
And then one small house in San Francisco, Berrett-Koehler, published the book.
And immediately it went to the New York Times bestseller list.
Very quickly. And stayed there for a year and a half.
All over the world people get trapped in this system.
This corporate system.
So we live in a very, very exciting time,
when people around the world are waking up
to the fact that we must change it.
My job is to help do that. But every one of us...
... needs to be involved at some level.
So it's really going to take us all to make that happen,
Because the people at the top don't make change.
I'd like to be remembered as someone who really cared
and really tried to make a difference.
And enjoyed doing it.
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