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Elan Ullendorff • Thinking outside "outside the box"
skyscrapers. But here’s the problem: if cheaply made, it will rot from the inside as water gradually seeps in through tiny cracks in the concrete and rusts the steel. This process is currently destroying infrastructure across the United States;* in twenty or thirty years’ time, China will be next. China poured more concrete in the three years after
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Schumpeter famously described this phenomenon as “creative destruction”;
Jay Heinrichs • Aristotle's Guide to Self-Persuasion: How Ancient Rhetoric, Taylor Swift, and Your Own Soul Can Help You Change Your Life
The changes implied by the Information Revolution will not only create a fiscal crisis for governments, they will tend to disintegrate all large structures.
James Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
Firms and factories race to produce the same products and barely make any profit—a phenomenon known in China as nei juan, or involution. Rather than try to differentiate their products, firms will attempt to simply outproduce their rivals by expanding production as fast as possible and engaging in fierce price wars; there is little incentive to gai
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