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Econ prof | author Mastering the Universe, Bit Tyrants, Capitalism vs Freedom | house economist @curaffairs | AFT 2196 | steal from the rich & drink to the poor

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The world's cursed by war and on fire with climate change, and it's all for the benefit of a tiny rogue's gallery of stinking rich bastards. Announcing my new book on the ruling class, Mastering the Universe from @haymarketbooks . Out in Aug, pre-order now!
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Mastering the Universe: The Obscene Wealth of the Ruling Class, What They Do with Their Money, and...

Economist Rob Larson combines wit, righteous anger, and clear-eyed analysis as he dissects the lifestyle, moral bankruptcy, and stupidly large sums of money hoarded by the disgustingly wealthy.The...

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Everyone write your Hamas representative
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I assume articles like this were how the Japanese-American internment started
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Meanwhile in the Wall Street Journal, the proprietor of an outsourced health care call center is audibly cackling at how a recession is going to put all you Spoiled Young Workers in your place
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“Iraq has 1-6 wmds”
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1-6 inches of snow predicted tomorrow? Can you imagine if any other profession allowed itself a similar range? "Your plane will depart tomorrow between 1 and 6." "We've bought you a dress between size 1 and 6." "Best to limit your daily wine intake to between 1 glass and 6."
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I was conceived in LA. Tomorrow I will move into Eve Fartlow’s living room and master bath and begin documenting history. Yes I was born in Indiana. Yes I live in Washington. Suck it. I am a Serious Thinker
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This tweet has attracted a ton of attention because people deny Jewish ancestry and indigenous rights to Israel. Everyone who has attacked this tweet believes that Jews don't deserve a state, and advocate for genocide of Israelis. Yes I was born in Scotland. I live in LA. Israel
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Operation: Nothing To Run On proceeding smoothly
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Oh sure, this kind of Big Government socialist public housing can eliminate homelessness, but it takes billions of dollars! And we only have trillions of dollars!
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That’s a hangover, not a drinking problem
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Now that noncompetes are getting banned in more states you are going to LOVE the new form of indentured servitude created by the free market
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Enjoyed learning today that I’m helping pay for a previously-undisclosed US base in the Kingdom of Jordan, as well as one in Syria designated “Conoco mission support site”
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Really appreciate this person, whose gross failures caused one of our worst presidencies, still weighing in occasionally with just the worst fucking positions possible. Thank you madam secretary for your rare pro-war voice
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Hillary Clinton at the Rice Baker Institute’s gala: "People who are calling for a ceasefire now do not understand Hamas. That is not possible. It would be such a gift to Hamas."
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Rigorously!
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Been trying for years to get people to realize that new housing construction is almost all high-end luxury units for the hyper-rich to use as fourth homes and speculative poker chips
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Going to get my bachelor’s from Prager U, master’s from U of Austin, doctorate from Peterson Academy, postdoc at Trump University, then slowly lower my head into a vat of sulfuric acid
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BREAKING: Jordan Peterson exacts revenge on woke moralists by creating PETERSON ACADEMY, an “online university” without accreditation. Graduating will help you get “preferential treatment” in the job market because of Peterson’s “rigorous screening work.” Coming November 2023!
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I bet
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This makes sense, since the richest insulin mines were exhausted in 2009
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Has it
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Twist ending
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Oh goody
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Perhaps, David
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In case you wondered, yes conservative editorials are already memorializing the death-trap sea coffin as a Martyr for Market Innovation
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Hidden just unbelievably well
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Soooo much better than a stupid social safety net
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You might think Palestinian statehood was blocked by the occupying foreign government with the NATO-level military explicitly calling for ethnic cleansing, but no it was YOU and your unpleasant campus demonstrations for ending apartheid that are to blame
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In fact, many of us have spent years writing detailed rebuttals of conservative writers and ideas, which are then surprisingly difficult to get conservatives to read
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People dunking on the “water is wet” stupidity of this tweet, but remember that leftists have zero theory of mind for anyone to the right of Obama, and the claim that conservatives prefer traditional values and hierarchies qualifies as an insightful take for the Jacobin audience
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Can an attorney explain to me how this is real. They literally CALL it “TRAPs”
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Big birthday to Normal Chomsky!
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Why did Bernie say this
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Conservatives are right, kids aren’t emotionally ready for traumatizing gender issues. Now get on the floor Timmy, time for school shooting practice
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Honestly not sure I could recommend this country to a friend
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For anyone who thinks the wall-to-wall Western support for Ukraine comes from concern for actual Ukrainians, we are about to irradiate their country for the remaining projected lifespan of the Earth
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Newspaper credibility too damaged to say “IDF,” readers find
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The real senate dress code
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End the 17-year siege and now ethnic cleansing of Gaza, stop illegal settlement-building and annexations in the West Bank, quit torturing Palestinian prisoners, do its “self-defense” inside its own damn borders
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This has been said, but it sucks to see all American media dogpiling on Biden for his one good decision
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Jesus, go ahead and shut down the government if it means I don’t have to hear about this shit anymore
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Philanthropy has been the fig leaf of the ruling class since the Gilded Age. But on any inspection it turns out that billionaire involvement even in charity is fucking disastrous, including in the Covid crisis, as @parismarx and I discussed on his awesome show:
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Operation Pretend To Do Something fails to deliver
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Everyone please stop terrorizing your bosses, it’s out of control
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Meanwhile, there’s a general strike in India
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Miscegenation laws. The male-only ballot. The CFC market. Child labor. Well that’s four things
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Name 1 thing the left has destroyed 👇
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NOTHING
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Well with the election settling down and vaccines showing promise, I wonder what’s going on in the rest of the worlOH MY GOD
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Honestly not sure if I would recommend this country to a friend
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Breaking News: 8 students were wounded in a school shooting near Denver. The 2 suspects in custody were also students, the police said.
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Those radical human rights supporters
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God it would be horrible if former students of mine used this tool in big big like cartoonishly big numbers
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The Debt Collective 🟥
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Today, we launched a NEW tool—the Student Debt Release Tool. For the first time, you can file an individual appeal to the Department of Education requesting your student debt be canceled. Try here:
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Impossible to enjoy this more
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BREAKING: Sweden’s Transport Workers’ Union announces that garbage disposal will be blocked at all Tesla facilities starting Christmas Eve. Ports in Denmark, Norway, and Finland will stop unloading Teslas in a week. Pressure is mounting as Musk refuses to bargain with unions.
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Oh no the tangle Help I’ve become tied up By this “tangled” monthslong ethnic cleansing
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Shifting how I wonder, probably getting way more left-wing probably I bet
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And Trump’s second term draws ever closer
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NEW: Biden allies float idea of scaling back events to limit his verbal flubs
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At this stressful time for the world I regret to inform you my cat has fallen asleep in the blueberries again
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The DoD got a multi-billion dollar budget hike this week, has $3.5 trillion in assets, admits to losing hundreds of billions-worth of equipment and failed five straight audits, UNDERFUNDED
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I wrote a little outline of how the rich own the giant majority of traded stocks! Short version, corporate America belongs to the 1%. For your protest sign-making convenience
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You don't care about the stock market. But should you? No. Economist @IronicProfessor explains why:
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Losing the battle for public opinion amid a growing successful strike action? Try PINKERTONS
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Stellantis, maker of Jeep, Dodge, and Chrysler, sent private, ex-military security guards with a history of violent altercations to break the UAW strike at five of its plants. That’s these guys. Thread.
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With Bezos stepping down, here's a wee taste of my loving portrait of him in my book on Big Tech from @haymarketbooks
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Guess again you jackasses
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Capitalism Didn’t Make the iPhone, You iMbecile

Economist Rob Larson explains why the free market isn't the force of innovation it's commonly believed to be. Support Current Affairs: http://currentaffairs....

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Do you use an iPhone? Watch Netflix? Listen to Spotify? Then you love capitalism and can't stand big government.
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Say, Noam Chomsky just endorsed the great @cmkshama for re-election! Noam is a towering figure and you should give to Kshama. I know I did!
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What an honor for our re-election campaign @VoteSawant to be endorsed by Noam Chomsky! Indeed, our movement to win Seattle's $15/hour minimum wage inspired workers in many cities to win it, @BernieSanders campaigned on raising federal minimum wage to $15! Yes, our work is a model
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The protection levels, so high
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Tesla is to protect life on Earth, SpaceX to extend life beyond.
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My latest for Jacobin, on Big Tech’s emails getting subpoenaed. It’s going to be juicy, so here are some of Silicon Valley’s grossest emails from past investigations! Grab a Friday beer and prepare to be scandalized
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Congress is demanding that Silicon Valley companies release their internal emails. If history is any guide, we know what to expect: revelations of anti-worker scheming, corporate power plays, and all sorts of other malevolent machinations.
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Many people have been saying big tech isn’t invasive enough, well GOOD NEWS
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I sold my next book! Waiting on the full contract. I’ll keep the publisher secret for now, perhaps I’ll reveal it later
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Ending the Vietnam War Makes My ROTC Grandson Feel FOMO
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Can you name 1 thing the government does well?
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Let’s goooo
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. @NathanJRobinson and I made a guide on what socialism and capitalism are, so you can share it instead of explaining for the trillionth time
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Cell carriers, food processing, investment banking, smartphone operating systems, health insurance, oil refining, processor chip manufacturing, video game consoles, credit card networks, cloud computing, mobile search, broadcast media, airlines, beer brewing, weapons industry
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The baby formula shortage reveals an amazing secret oligopoly: - 3 American companies control over 90% of the mkt - hugely restrictive regulations (thanks to big $ lobbying) prohibit foreign formulas Name another industry/sector/product like this
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Oh look, the fellow whose dreadful libertarian children’s books I reviewed for ��� @curaffairs ⁩ had it framed! If YOU are an author of abysmal godforsaken right-wing nonsense who’d like a suitable-for-framing extremely insulting review, hit me in the DMs
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'Mr. Mandela must be turning in his grave to see what has become of the country he saved from the horror of apartheid' Frmr. IDF intelligence officer Raphaël Jerusalmy gives us an analysis of how this case will impact South Africa's reputation
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It is with great pride that I announce our internal campaign to cancel Nathan and drive him from @curaffairs has been successful
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Announcement: I have resigned as editor in chief of @curaffairs effective immediately. Thank you all for years of support. The constricting and oppressive internal culture has forced me to take this extreme step. My letter explaining further:
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Ultimate WSJ editorial. Sure you’d be sicker but GROWTH would be healthier
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The power move of enriching your boss at the cost of your mental and physical health
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Sure, the patient may be experiencing escalating heart attacks and strokes, but did you know their diastolic blood pressure per pound of body weight is actually DOWN? Prescribe continued bacon and milkshake-based diet
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Hot damn, my latest for @jacobinmag on the Gates Foundation laundering Microsoft’s monopoly cash. Tech billionaires shouldn’t be in charge!
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Bill Gates's foundation was originally cooked up as a feel-good gloss to cover up his shredded reputation during Microsoft’s antitrust trial. Bill Gates and his foundation are the perfect picture of why the model of billionaire philanthropy is so flawed.
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“The people” supported keeping Roe by 2 to 1 you shitdicks
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I just ran the numbers, and it's really shocking. You can see the democratic decline in a global context. It's hard to explain to non-political scientists how bad this is. I'm having to rewrite the syllabus and think about how to communicate what's happening to my students.
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How much power do the health insurers and hospitals have? Enough to out-flex alliances of the biggest giants, according to the WSJ
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. @JoeBiden didn’t work with segregationists. He was one. #Biden2020
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Joe Biden says he "got stuck with" carrying crime bills and had to "put up with" segregationists. That doesn't square with his past actions and rhetoric. @asteadwesley & I look at the Joe Biden who warned of "violent thugs" and "predators on our streets."
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The US Air Force budget is over $200 billion a year
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The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental US undetected under the Trump administration, a Pentagon general says
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Oh no, there must be some potential union drive or socialist candidate to stop
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Some of us wrote book-length rebuttals, but why be serious
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“Very few professors know much at all about the conservative intellectual tradition,” writes Jon A. Shields. “Many assume there is little of value in it.”
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Good news, one of the wars we’re not paying attention to has a cease fire
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Counterpoint: Is not
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So I wrote another book about #capitalism ! I can't see it being controversial at all. Out in June from @Zer0Books .
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You too can ruin your vacation!
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Enjoying @IronicProfessor 's excellent Bit Tyrants in the sun. Nothing better to be filled with in the Tuscan hills than blind rage.
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It appears libertarians are displeased by my book insulting libertarians. The system works!
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@mises This Professor Hates the Austrian School. But He Clearly Doesn’t Know Much about It. Capitalism vs. Freedom: The Toll Road to Serfdomby Rob LarsonZero Books, 2018, 233 pp. Rob Larson, who is a professor of economics at Tacoma Community
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Bomb, besiege, and raid a hospital with no power or water full of injured and traumatized war refugees first, ask questions later
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Our health care system is arguably somewhat flawed
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2 years
Let me guess, the next six months are critical
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9 months
Fun fact: “Shock treatment,” used as a metaphor for mass privatization, was most prominently used in the fall of the USSR when GDP fell by half and population fell by several million
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Javier Milei: New president tells Argentina 'shock treatment' looms
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Folks, I'm consumed with ecstatic joy to say my new book, Bit Tyrants, will be out in February from the great @haymarketbooks . As the honeymoon ends for Big Tech, a socialist cool take is just what the doctor ordered! "A badly needed study." -Noam Chomsky
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Bit Tyrants

If the stories they tell about themselves are to be believed, all of the tech giants—Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon—were built from the ground up through hard work, a few good ideas,...

www.haymarketbooks.org
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Must be a misprint, I was told Pelosi is a master strategist
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5 years
Recent grads everywhere are enjoying my @Zer0Books book! As you free yourselves from the tyranny of course syllabi, celebrate with a tall glass of understanding!
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2 years
So much better than regulating industry, just regulate your lungs
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Dyson has created headphones that include a purifying visor designed to help people avoid polluted air in cities
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10 months
Turns out entrenched institutions are stronger than nice cheap words
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1 year
Pretty bold proposal to make in the middle of a spreading financial panic. Seniors losing everything in market crashes is why we have a public pension in the first place, you preposterous goblins, to avoid the phenomenon of Street Grandmas
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Hot off the presses! This book will make you look smart and sexy in public settings. Get two so you can read it twice as fast
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3 years
Ah yes, more free market innovation, which actually comes from the state
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They redefine it to “Nationalization-ready”
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