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What's wrong with reading Vonnegut and not knowing who was is just normal. Most people can't name an unsuccessful politician from 100 years ago.
I don't think any text will do what you're hoping, that kind of progress is usually made through conversation. But I'd recommend George Saunders' In Persuasion Nation (2006), which is a short story collection about cranked up capitalist inconsistencies. He's a lib but he's got a good radar for the savage idiocy of a society under late stage capitalism.
Alternatively I might suggest The Fever (1991) by Wallace Shawn.
Based Grand Nagus.