Just finished perusing Douglas Rushkoff’s Life Inc: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back. Note the villain is “corporatism,” not simply corporations. Even corporations themselves are victimized; they get tilted into self-destructive acts by decision frameworks that benefit nobody — only roughly satisfying some people’s abstract sense that “the market [...]
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Remember after 9/11 when George W. Bush said everyone should go shopping — “or the terrorists will win”? But wasn’t the economy supposed to have receded anyways, without the terrorist attack? There was the super-hyped dotcom bubble and then Enron and the accounting blowup. Things needed to cool down. Then the attack happened, the reactions of Bush [...]
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