Corporate executives, private equity investors and management consultants quietly built a system that makes workers absorb the risks of the business cycle
Are you suggesting that the emptying out of the American middle class is not actually the fault of those migrants and urban elites that populists constantly demonize? Sacre bleu!
Absolutely brilliant essay! I cannot remember the last time I've seen so many complex variables pulled together in a way that makes sense of all aspects of this topic. I'm going to have to read this several times, and Davies’ book as well, because I'm sure I have missed something.
Not specifically mentioned, but related I believe is the nose dive that customer service has taken, likewise disproportionately falling on the shoulders of the "little people", the consumers -- more fuel on the populist bonfire.
Had to wait for the release of the newest edition on April 4th, but I’m finally reading and now well into Davies’ book. Pretty much every page has been an “ah ha” moment. Great stuff!
The paperclip-manufacturing machine has strong resemblances to Stanislaw Lem's 24th voyage in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_Diaries: same idea in a much entertaining form. A great author I often go back to.
Are you suggesting that the emptying out of the American middle class is not actually the fault of those migrants and urban elites that populists constantly demonize? Sacre bleu!
Who'd have thunk it?
Absolutely brilliant essay! I cannot remember the last time I've seen so many complex variables pulled together in a way that makes sense of all aspects of this topic. I'm going to have to read this several times, and Davies’ book as well, because I'm sure I have missed something.
Not specifically mentioned, but related I believe is the nose dive that customer service has taken, likewise disproportionately falling on the shoulders of the "little people", the consumers -- more fuel on the populist bonfire.
Thanks for the kind words! The book is amazing. There is a great reading list at the end if you want to go far out into the weeds.
Had to wait for the release of the newest edition on April 4th, but I’m finally reading and now well into Davies’ book. Pretty much every page has been an “ah ha” moment. Great stuff!
The paperclip-manufacturing machine has strong resemblances to Stanislaw Lem's 24th voyage in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_Diaries: same idea in a much entertaining form. A great author I often go back to.