 The book charts Chomsky's analysis of the concentration of wealth from the 1970s to now.Chomsky analyzes the way in which power relations shifted from the late 1940s to today, in the name of "plutocratic interests".This shift in power relations ends up being an assault "on lower- and middle-class people, which has escalated in recent decades during the ascendancy of what is known as 'neoliberalism' – with fiscal austerity for the poor and tax cuts and other subsidies for the wealthy minority."