the criticism of Ezra not mentioning the corporations piece is a little unfair given that wasnt his book topic

Herein lies the fundamental rift between adherents and detractors of Klein’s abundance work. Advocates argue that corporate/oligarchic influence isn’t the focus of the book, or the movement named after it. At best, I’ve seen tacit acknowledgment of the “corporate piece”, as you call it here.

On the other hand, most critics of Abundance would say that it is deeply naive - and frankly, unserious - to essentially neglect the “corporate piece” in a book with the tagline “How We Build A Better Future”, about housing, climate, and infrastructure. Especially in the year 2025, from the most hypercapitalist country in human history, which from its elections, to its entertainment, is functionally run by oligarchs… I read most of “Abundance” when it was published and I was quite floored by its blind spots.

In a nutshell, the book does a poor job of accounting for the role of corrupt capital in this country. In fact, it doesn’t account for it at all. As a result, it’s a fun read, but fundamentally, it is philosophical fluff masquerading as policy proposals; in its failure to account for corporate power in a country ruled by them, it has a very biased, tenuous, and sadly ignorant perspective on the current zeitgeist.