/lit/ - Literature

Currently reading this. Thoughts?

Any short modern economics books that are enjoyable to read?

I don't get it, according to this book, the wealth inequality in the US is the worst of any first world nation.
Yet a quick search and I found this:
>engineering salary in germany:43,600 euros
>engineering salary in the US:The lowest 10 percent earned $60,250
I had to pick the lowest end of the bracket for engineering salary just so I could make the German's engineering salary look less pathetic by comparison.
What is the problem exactly?
Yeah the Walmart worker in Germany probably earns more than the Walmart worker in the US.
But do we need to do a radical change to the economy just Walmart workers can get a better salary?

I haven't read the entire book but it seems to vindicate Marx in some respects.
The books ends with the optimistic proposal that there be tax on wealth and maybe a higher inheritance tax.
But we all know that's not going to happen.
If we keep going down this path without major reforms capitalism may very well collapse like Karl Marx predicted.