Matthew Garcia
@matthewgarcia
Matthew Garcia
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perplexity.ai"The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits"
The document discusses the social responsibility of businesses and argues that their main purpose is to increase profits for their shareholders.
philosophia.uncg.edu"Suffering is a moment of clarity, when you can no longer deny the truth of a situation and are forced into uncomfortable change. I’m lucky that I didn’t get everything I wanted in my life, or I’d be happy with my first good job, my college sweetheart, my college town. Being poor when young led to making money when old. Losing faith in my bosses... See more
Tim Ferrisstwitter.com“We could wind up with networks that have the principal effect of fostering addiction to a new generation of electronic narcotics ... their principal themes revolving around instant gratification ... their uses and content determined by mega-corporations pushing mindless consumption of things we don’t need and aren’t good for us.”
--Mitchell Kapor,... See more
--Mitchell Kapor,... See more
Note by Gurwinder on Substack
I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I’m doing and why.
—Nina Simone
focused reflection creates useful reality
“But the span of time between when new technology emerges and when standards and norms are hardened is often short. The Wild West, in other words, only lasts for so long. Eventually, the railroads standardize time; incandescent bulbs beat out arc lamps; the dream of the open web dies.”
“What defines this next phase of human history must begin with the individual.”