I'm the Big Boss in America

My name is Li Wei. I used to go by Jack Anderson, but you might know me better by my nickname: "The Corporate Butcher."

I spent fourteen years clawing my way to the top of Wall Street's food chain. I laid off 26,000 people, dismantled nineteen companies, and signed enough termination papers to stack them higher than I am tall. Then I dropped dead and transmigrated into a domineering CEO who had personally caused countless tragedies. I discovered that he'd just approved a plan to lay off 1,200 people.

The board said I was crazy. Hitmen came after me. I ran with a million dollars, an action camera, and a head full of financial knowledge.

Now I drive a rented Honda Civic across America. Prisoners in Louisiana, amputees with diabetes in Arizona, programmers in San Francisco driven out by algorithms: I film them one by one and do the math for them. How much capital has made off their backs, how much it left them, and at what point it threw them away.

Every story in this book is true. I've changed the names and checked the details. If you see yourself in one of these stories, don't panic. It's no coincidence. It's how the system was designed.

I'm Old Li. This is my record of being human in America.