Is planned obsolescence of products, services and talent part of a creative destruction process under the New Normal?
“They don’t make them like they used to anymore” is an ancient lament that has resonated through the ages in various forms. It applies both to humans and their material outputs. The Greek philosopher Socrates had this to say of the youths of his day, circa 470 BC: “Children; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of...
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- 13.11.2023 18:42:47
The Russian Oligarchs are more comparable to the Robber Barons in late 19th Century America. Despite the similarities, however, there are important differences. The most important similarity is that both resulted from institutional and legal vacuums of which energetic, enterprising, unscrupulous men took advantage.
In late 19th Century America, a national economy was beginning to emerge, most notably in the railroads and oil industry. The U.S. economy was mainly local and regional. The Federal Government...
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- 22.04.2016 05:50:00
... to say. Democratic reality is pretty thin on the ground." (1979: 1-2).
Karl Popper, author of The Open Society and Its Enemies, writes that nowhere do “The People” actually rule themselves. Everywhere, he writes, they are ruled by elites and bureaucrats, "our civil servants or uncivil masters ... whom it is difficult, if not impossible, to make accountable for their actions" (1988, 20).
Robert Dahl, one of the most distinguished theorists of democracy in the United ...
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- 16.02.2016 05:08:00
... power, and prestige almost never arise. And when they do arise, it is only at the margins of political debate. In those rare instances when an existing political order is challenged, such things as populist movements and "color revolutions," elites almost always find ways to diffuse them. There may be excellent reasons why the state of conquest is almost never challenged. Yet the fact is that it very rarely is challenged.
Government everywhere, even in democracies, is not really about consent ...
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- 22.10.2015 02:36:00
