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heading off to a Google retreat… wonder what’s running through their mind =)
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I thought this paragraph of Robert Reich’s piece was a very good starting point for more analysis:
The crisis of American capitalism marks the triumph of consumers and investors over workers and citizens. And since most of us occupy all four roles – even though the lion’s share of consuming and investing is done by the wealthy – the real crisis centers on the increasing efficiency by which all of us as consumers and investors can get great deals, and our declining capacity to be heard as workers and citizens.
We all play many roles and each role has its "dharma". Now the roles of consumer and investor are in conflict with those of citizen and worker. We have to very careful. Martin Wolf of the FT has this juicy paragraph:
The story of public goods goes back to the very beginning of states, which were the result of the agricultural revolution. The latter made populations vulnerable to brigands – whom the late Mancur Olson called “roving bandits”. The answer was the “stationary bandit” – the state. It was not a perfect answer – answers almost never are. But it worked well enough to permit substantial increases in population. The state provided defence in return for taxation. The empires – Rome or China – enjoyed economies of scale in providing security. When Rome collapsed, security was privatised by local gangsters, at huge social cost: this we now call feudalism
Links: robertreich.org/post/16773820312
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/517e31c8-45bd-11e1-93f1-00144feab... -
at least we have their written assurance that they will not be evil.
more than can be said about any other corporation. -
"Google has taken on the challenge of defining evil, which begs for an operational constitution. Neal Stephenson proposes one meta rule: in a climate of moral relativism the only sin is hypocrisy."
wow.
in india people say "that bureaucrat is a really good man. if you bribe him, he really will do it for you."
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