Norman Lear, the famous American TV producer, said: “We just may be the most-informed, yet least self-aware people in history.”
“We are not products of these platforms so much as the labor force. We dutifully read, click, post, and retweet; we become enraged, scandalized, and indignant; and we go on to complain, attack, or cancel. That’s work. The beneficiaries are the shareholders.”
― Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
― Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
“But further research has suggested that after people have gained power, they tend to behave like patients with damage to the brain’s orbitofrontal lobes. That is, the experience of wealth and power is akin to removing the part of the brain “critical to empathy and socially appropriate behavior.”
― Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
― Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
“future that had less to do with making the world a better place than it did with transcending the human condition altogether.”
― Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
― Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
“Business schools teach baby MBAs the same lessons: to avoid industries with high competition, to do what it takes to keep potential competitors out, and, if all else fails, to buy them up.17 Warren Buffett explains that, in business, he looks “for economic castles protected by unbreachable moats,”18 because “the products or services that have wide, sustainable moats around them are the ones that deliver rewards to investors.”19 That”
― Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back
― Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back
“a generic formula: Anglos rule; all natives are Indians; all land and water is just gold waiting to happen. Geopolitics took on the character of the gold rush, as European colonial powers engaged in competitive scrambles for colonial territory in sub-Saharan Africa and”
― Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
― Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
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