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capitalist investment is not suficient to overturn monopolies archive/dissertation

[...] The challenge today, however, is that capitalist investment is not suficient to overturn monopolies; access to data, network effects, and path dependency place even higher hurdles in the way of overcoming a monopoly like Google. This does not mean the end of competition or of the struggle for…

—p.97 Platform Capitalism Great Platform Wars (93) by Nick Srnicek
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hew

They were hewing out of the mountain of white supremacy the stone of their individuality.

—p.85 Down At The Cross (19) by James Baldwin
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people who cannot suffer can never grow up

[...] I do not mean to be sentimental about suffering—enough is certainly as good as a feast—but people who cannot suffer can never grow up, can never discover who they are. That man who is forced each day to snatch his manhood, his identity, out of the fire of human cruelty that rages to destroy i…

—p.84 Down At The Cross (19) by James Baldwin
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no one holds power forever

[...] I am far from convinced that being released from the African witch doctor was worthwhile if I am now—in order to support the moral contradictions and the spiritual aridity of my life—expected to become dependent on the American psychiatrist. It is a bargain I refuse. The only thing white peop…

—p.82 Down At The Cross (19) by James Baldwin
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life is tragic

Behind what we think of as the Russian menace lies what we do not wish to face, and what white Americans do not face when they regard a Negro: reality—the fact that life is tragic. Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the …

—p.79 Down At The Cross (19) by James Baldwin