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How could Friedman not see that Mr. Brodlin's business could not possibly be sustainable at any kind of larger scale? His wife is mailing the books by hand! It
by schrototo 16y ago
How could Friedman not see that Mr. Brodlin's business could not possibly be sustainable at any kind of larger scale? His wife is mailing the books by hand! It may be a nice little family business, but to compare it with Amazon, even in 1999...
- pmcginn 16y agoFriedman has not made a career out of being consistently correct. I don't generally agree with Matt Taibbi, but he does a great job dismantling T.L.F. here: http://www.nypress.com/article-19271-flat-n-all-that.html http://www.nypress.com/article-19271-flat-n-all-that.html
- bambax 16y agoOh thanks for this, what a great article, I couldn't stop laughing reading it. The "graphs" part is the funniest part (and so true).
- numeromancer 16y agoThis guy's writing ain't so hot, either. I'll leave it to the readers to find his bad analogies, parallelism-failures, jarring subject changes, etc.