> […] when it's brought up, it's just mocked because, honestly, who is going to read a book about 19th century finance when you can just watch the new star wars show instead.

Modern-day anti-intellectualism FTW! I know, I know, commenters will argue that this is mainly a laziness problem… But when has it ever been “cool” to read (in the sense of being socially incentivized broadly speaking)? To quote a modern day (retired) twitter poet: “Sad!”