Gerd Leonhard

“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.”
― Douglas Rushkoff, 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.”
― Douglas Rushkoff, 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.”
― Douglas Rushkoff, 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”
― Rebecca Giblin, Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back