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My summation of the american economy and workplace in general: The worst elements of centralized communism cross-bred with the worst elements of half-baked capi
by shaunxcode 18y ago
My summation of the american economy and workplace in general: The worst elements of centralized communism cross-bred with the worst elements of half-baked capitalism. Both of his stories illustrate this point.
Right now we need something akin to the futurist spirit of italy (minus the fascism) to drive us forward and rid ourselves of the past (and probably minus the part where we throw out everything old merely because it is old so really I digress entirely. not really.).
On a positive note I find a lot of that spirit in the startup/hacker community which is why I stick around despite working for a corporation in hopes of one day "starting up".
- jacoblyles 18y agoAnd yet, somehow, with the worst of all possible economic systems, we have created the richest country on the planet. Strange, that.
- shaunxcode 18y agoI was not talking about americas "wealth" - I was coming from the context of the article in that the way people are treated is leading to an overall economic downturn.
- jacoblyles 18y agoThe examples mentioned in the article seem to be steady-state issues that would be there in boom or bust. You would be hard pressed to establish any causation.
- olefoo 18y ago> we have created the richest country on the planet By which metrics? We are the poorest, sickest and most illiterate and most incarcerated of the industrialised nations, going by percentage of the population. Oh sure, we have more aircraft carriers, nuclear bombs and cars per capita but many people would consider our level of economic uncertainty, our treatment of our children and of our elderly to be emblematic of a poverty of the spirit. Your glib spouting of the received wisdom may have been somewhat true for much of the twentieth century; but perhaps it is time to reexamine the validity of that statement.