Tag: capitalism
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There’s (1) the person who lives for politics; the person who sees the office as an instrument to do the kind of important, institutional work that they would still do tomorrow even if the job title disappeared. Then there’s (2) the person who lives off politics; who wants the office for the sake of having…
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Starting a successful startup is the most common way to become a billionaire, so in effect I’ve spent the last 21 years training people to become billionaires. So far about 30 of them have, but there are many more in the pipeline. So you can imagine how astonished I was last month when an American…
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The phrase “late stage capitalism” is getting thrown around more and more lately in ways that are cringe and annoying. I’m starting to shut out people who use it. Consider: Many of the ills of “late stage capitalism” have been features from the beginning What evidence is there that “late stage capitalism” is even a…
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We have bad metrics as a society (X) Managers when a star employee leaves (X) “Everything Kevin Kelly knows about self-publishing” CAPITALISM GIVES ME THE FREEDOM TO PURSUE AS MANY SIDE GIGS AS I WANT TO PAY OFF MY INCREASING BILLS AND LOANS
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“14 Novels I’d Save” “Under communist rule, Poland was exceptionally unequal in nearly everything that mattered” (X) Interesting. The Secret History Is Still the Book I Recommend to Everyone (paywall) “The Secret History is my personal Platonic ideal of what a novel should be, and since I first read it back in the heady days of junior…
