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Alec Ross
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Vancouver, Canada
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“When people scratch their heads and wonder how it can be that the stock market is booming and executive compensation is at an all-time high but the overall economy is less dynamic and workers are not benefiting, look no further than the trillions of dollars in stock buybacks.”
― The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People—and the Fight for Our Future
― The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People—and the Fight for Our Future
“At work, either you will be telling a machine what to do or a machine will be telling you what to do.”
― The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People—and the Fight for Our Future
― The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People—and the Fight for Our Future
“At the end of the Cold War, workers received an estimated eleven cents of every dollar they earned for their employer. Thirty years later, they made less than six cents on the dollar. In effect, the personal returns employees received for their labor were cut in half.”
― The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People—and the Fight for Our Future
― The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People—and the Fight for Our Future
“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
― Why I Write
― Why I Write
“I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.”
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“I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.”
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