SuperFreakonomics (Pt 1)

This book is amazing! I so recommend it to anyone who just can read. I mean its for people probably from the age of 14 and up. I mean it just explores different views that you would not expect as a reader. Like this book does not even have a genre i would say. I could not place it under specific category. So one of the quotes that really stuck out to me which was pretty, "short but sweet" was one that was about global warming and how it is affecting humans, plants, animals, and pretty much every life form on the planet.

Carbon dioxide is the right villain,

Pretty much it explains a lot in just one quote. Carbon dioxide is what is affecting everything! During the first part of the book even before the debate about global warming was about how a Street Prostitute is like a Department-Store Santa?

It turns out that the typical street prostitute in Chicago works 13 hours a week, performing 10 sex acts during that period, and earns an hourly wage of approximately $27. So her weekly take- home pay is roughly $350. This includes an average of $20 that a prostitute steals from her customers and acknowledges that some prostitutes accept drugs in lieu of cash— usually crack cocaine or heroin, and usually at a discount. Of all the women in Venkatesh’s study,83 percent were drug addicts.

So it pretty much showed what the Street Prostitute was like and then later it talked about the Department-Store Santa. I thought this was a very interesting topic considering i would have never thought the two had anything in common at all. So overall the book has been pretty entertaining. I have gotten very far and can not seem to put it down because it is so entertaining. Can't wait for next weeks post and to hear what Ming has to say about the book.