don't be too hard on yourself - a) he probably didn't read all of these and it is some intern's job to make this list b) reading for fun and reading for information are too different skills. You can buy a book on philosophy, skim 50% of it and deep dive into a single chapter.

you've definitely read way more posts tho

Various people who knew Andropov well, including Vladimir Medvedev, Aleksandr Chuchyalin, Vladimir Kryuchkov[92] and Roy Medvedev, remembered him for his politeness, calmness, unselfishness, patience, intelligence and exceptionally sharp memory.[93] According to Chuchyalin, while working at the Kremlin, Andropov would read about 600 pages a day and remember everything he read.[94] Andropov read English literature and could communicate in Finnish, English and German.[95]

Piketty is a one trick pony, I went to one of his conference at my University. All he advocates for is a global progressive tax system. He never explains how it is going to be implemented (he himself acknowledges that there is a need for all government to form a UN like IRS which he doesn't believe it's ever going to be possible) or the fact that the implementation of his global tax system would just nuke most of the economy of countries that are just taxe havens for the rich.

The Netflix documentary of the book is enough to explain its contents. It's funny to see him talk about capitalism without mentioning ONCE Marx, Webber, Ricardo, etc. Or why the USA did the New Deal (because they never mention the Bolsheviks Revolution at all). The only mention of the USSR is that ''wow it collapsed because it's a failure and a police state, oh wow suddenly wealth inequality skyrocketed for no reasons''

Oh yeah, China is basically doing State Capitalism not so different than USA Post WW1 (never going into the details ofc), but they are bad because there are wealth inequality