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Though automation is presented as a neutral process, the straightforward consequence of technological progress, one needn’t look that closely to see that this is hardly the case. Automation is both a reality and an ideology, and thus also a weapon wielded against poor and working people who have th…

That startup can be performed means that startup can be templatized. Pitch deck templates from successful startups, accelerators or venture capital firms are spread and shared like get-rich quick books. Startups now exist to help other startups create t-shirts, cater lunch, and build their own …

Regardless of the market, the product, or the team, the story structure remains. Paul Graham charted the arc in a whiteboard drawing called the startup cuve, now since turned into books, how-tos, and thinkpieces. But as in the hero's journey, or Kurt Vonnegut's Man in a Hole story arc, the startup …

Pitch decks and promotional collateral talk about world domination and changing the way we work, play, and live. [...] "This is not a small social app," the founder of Clinkle, a small payment app, said. "What we're trying to do here is fundamentally change how people trade. Every human being, …