Tag: capitalism
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The Invisibility Cloak by Ge Fei, translated by Canaan Morse
Ge Fei is an author I’ll seek out more from. The Invisibility Cloak is a short and memorable novel with unexpected depth.
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What happens when EV’s are just V’s?
Tesla is changing from a tech company that makes cars to a car company with new tech, and that has implications.
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Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
This leftist assessment of our current economic situation has a lot to offer but lost me in a few critical ways.
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Exposure by Robert Bilott
Years ago a business mentor of mine told me a story: “When I started out in business I thought that big companies were all evil. Then as I got older I started to realize that they were trying to do good, and often misunderstood. Then, I got a little older and realized I was right…
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Moneyland: The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats who Rule the World by Oliver Bullough
Inequality is likely second only to climate change on the list of defining issues of today, and this book approaches the issue from a unique angle. There are dozens of books about rich people behaving badly, and the ideas of tax havens, offshore accounts, holding companies and multiple citizenship all work their way into the…
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“I may have gotten a woman fired for less than $2 and a pint of ice cream.”
Kira Witkin in Esquire: I Got Paid to Spy on People While They Worked. I know a lot of people that work or have worked in retail and more than a few have been fired after failing secret shopper tests. I’ve never considered the other side of the story though. The average commission is $15…
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Corporate Bullshit
This book looks fun, and it sounds a lot like Paul Fairie’s upcoming The Press Gallery. (he is the guy behind viral Twitter threads like A Brief History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore). I read The Big Myth recently which touched on a lot of these garbage arguments that corporations use to try to…
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The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
Without exaggeration, it changed the way I think about the world around me.
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The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town by Brian Alexander
This reminded me a lot of Dopesick and Evicted, in that it dissects a whole lot about America through a seemingly simple lens.
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Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century by Tim Higgins
A lot has happened since Ludicrous was published a couple of years ago. This book covers all of the same ground, from a more neutral perspective, with 40 pages at the end of more current events. The author doesn’t mythologize Musk but isn’t harsh at all. The whole Tim Cook bit takes up half a page and…