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arrdem 2016-05-15T00:32:28.000730Z

good links @tjg, I look forwards to reading the baffler article more carefully.

arrdem 2016-05-15T00:33:21.000731Z

If I recall there was also a good treatment of this question in Zero to One ~ Thiel

arrdem 2016-05-15T00:37:23.000732Z

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joARXZagTuM

arrdem 2016-05-15T00:37:38.000734Z

^ same general topic, and I think a very good treatment of part of the "problem".

tjg 2016-05-15T11:55:24.000735Z

@arrdem: Thanks, that prodded me to finally read chapters of Thiel’s book. (And I sometimes binge on Neil deGrasse Tyson.)

tjg 2016-05-15T11:55:24.000736Z

Thiel and the Baffler article’s author actually had a fun discussion on this, with a lot of agreement (and some interesting disagreement): http://thebaffler.com/videos/graeber-thiel