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Forget eight billion humans or multi-trillion-dollar GDPs. Our brains aren't wired to comprehend numbers that massive. In this book, Hibranwar invites us to view true economic reality through a sharp, unflinching, yet incredibly accessible analogy.
In this 100-person village, the facts are staggering: 1 person controls 44% of all wealth, while the bottom 50 people are left to scramble for the remaining 2%. How did this happen? Does this one person really work 8,000 times harder?
Business If the World Were Only a Hundred People (Bisnis Jika Dunia Hanya Terdiri Dari Seratus Orang) is not your typical self-help business book that preaches waking up at 5 AM or promises overnight "financial freedom." This is a map of reality. It dismantles the system, the rules of the game, and the economic gravity that ensures money (or "tokens") always flows upward.
What you will discover in this book:
The Myth of Money's Origins: Why the "barter" story in your school textbooks is completely wrong, and how debt (not goods) is the true origin of money.
Position Dictates Everything: Why the farmer (who feeds the 100 people) gets the smallest slice of the pie, while the digital platform owner (The New Landlord) takes a cut from everything without producing a single thing.
The Banker's Vault Secret: How banks don't actually lend out their customers' money, but rather create new purchasing power "tokens" out of thin air.
The Lie of the Motivation Industry: Stripping away the "hard work equals wealth" myth. Why, out of the 5 people who try to start a business in this village, most do so out of sheer desperation, and why failure is a statistical norm.
The Three Pipelines of Wealth Transfer: How Interest, Dividends, and Rent act as an economic gravity that relentlessly moves wealth from the bottom to the top while you sleep.
This book is written specifically for "Person #73"—the ordinary person who works hard day and night, turning the wheels of the economy, yet always runs out of paycheck before the end of the month.
By understanding your position in the supply chain and how the rules of the game are written by those already in power, you will no longer be easily fooled by the illusion of fake success. You will learn what realistic steps you can take to shift from merely "selling your time" to "building assets."
The world is indeed unfair. Understanding how it works won't instantly make it fair, but it will make you far better equipped to face it.
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About the author
Hibranwar is the pen name of Ibrahim Anwar. An entrepreneur, a writer, translator, and independent publisher from Bogor, Indonesia. He started writing in 1998, when his first book never got finished, and the fire never went out. His love for books and handwriting gave birth to Hibrkraft in 2011, an artisan leather journal business that shipped to Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, and Australia. For Hibranwar, leather journals and printed books are one and the same breath: a medium to preserve the written word.
