Life & fun · December 13, 2016
Two HN tabs I found together, that concern me
I was reading Chappe and Chaudhary's essay The Supermanagerial Class, by way of a comment (2) and kept getting confused about which article I was reading, because the next tab over was Tetzeli's A Short History Of The Most Important Economic Theory In Tech (3). It's a little disturbing when you're reading about Nazi Germany and realizing the economic model there sounds a lot like the top post on Hacker News about an economic model for Silicon Valley. (1) https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-supermanagerial-reich/ (2)…
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I was reading Chappe and Chaudhary's essay The Supermanagerial Class, by way of a comment (2) and kept getting confused about which article I was reading, because the next tab over was Tetzeli's A Short History Of The Most Important Economic Theory In Tech (3). It's a little disturbing when you're reading about Nazi Germany and realizing the economic model there sounds a lot like the top post on Hacker News about an economic model for Silicon Valley. (1) https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-supermanagerial-reich/ (2) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12948142 (3) https://www.fastcompany.com/3064681/most-creative-people/most-important-economic-theory-in-technology-brian-arthur
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