“For all the grandiose talk about The Light Of Consciousness and The Future Of
Humanity that has come out of Silicon Valley during its ascent, what it has
delivered has mostly been spectacularly useless, lifeless, and anti-human. In
this sense, it reflects its owners perfectly.”
David Roth ,
Everything Is Silicon Valley Now
(Defector ,
November 14, 2022 ,
via Nick Heer )
posted 11/21/2022 8:00pm ∞
“[A] central theme of this story is that expectations move slower than reality on
the ground. That was true when people clung to 1950s expectations as the
economy changed over the next 35 years. And even if a middle-class boom began
today, expectations that the odds are stacked against everyone but those at the
top may stick around.”
(This is interesting and insightful, but I link to it with a very large caveat:
It erases minorities from the story.)
Morgan Housel ,
How All This Happened
(Collaborative Fund ,
November 24, 2021 )
posted 8/25/2022 8:00pm ∞
“Strategy and product visions only go so far. And success in those areas has
limited impact on real company culture. What makes working at a company
fulfilling is actually quite simple. You have to align the goals of your
organization with the health and stability of the employees.”
“We should ask ourselves, our communities, and our government: if a business
can’t pay a living wage, should it be a business? If it’s too expensive for
businesses to provide healthcare for their workers, maybe we need to decouple it
from employment?”
Anne Helen Petersen ,
The “Capitalism is Broken” Economy
(April 21, 2021 )
posted 4/26/2021 10:52pm ∞
“The researchers also looked specifically at the 2008 economic collapse and
estimate that a $1 minimum wage increase could have prevented over 13,000
suicides if previous trends held for this period.”
posted 1/12/2020 7:52pm ∞