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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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6 years, 11 months ago

money as an operating system doesn’t

This is the real cause of the severity and longevity of the 2007 crash. Rather than figuring out how to compensate for central currency’s extractive bias, a highly digital finance industry chose to exploit it. The digital perspective that allows us to see money as an operating system doesn’t necess…

—p.133 Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity Chapter Three (124) by Douglas Rushkoff
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close to the money spigot

[...] Money makes money faster than people or companies can create value. The richest people and companies should, therefore, position themselves as far away from working or creating things, and as close to the money spigot, as possible.

—p.131 Chapter Three (124) by Douglas Rushkoff
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6 years, 11 months ago

capital is an artifact of a kind of money

Currencies, tokens, and precious metals have indeed been used as means of exchange for thousands of years; but debt-based, interest-bearing, bank-issued central currency is a very particular tool with very particular biases—most significantly, a bias for growth. Capitalism itself is less the driver…

—p.126 Chapter Three (124) by Douglas Rushkoff
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the massive revenue generated by Firefox

[...] Mozilla is actually made up of two different entities: the Mozilla Foundation, a nonprofit, and the Mozilla Corporation, which the foundation oversees. The subsidiary corporation is responsible for much of Mozilla software’s development, marketing, and distribution. It collects the massive re…

—p.122 Chapter Two (68) by Douglas Rushkoff
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the corporation’s charter can be recoded archive/dissertation

As corporate law is currently structured, CEOs and their boards of directors can be held liable if they fail to do everything in their power to maximize quarterly returns for public shareholders. CEOs are not merely incentivized to pursue the short-term bottom line; they are legally obligated. Rath…

—p.118 Chapter Two (68) by Douglas Rushkoff