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The Rental Economy

sari • 34 cards

In 1895 it issued a memo to oil producers announcing that henceforth it would ignore the market price entirely and transact directly with them at a “take it or leave it” price. 264 Over time, oil became a

Byrne Hobart • Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation

Global Greenspeak has become a signifier that hides the predatory interests of particular multinational corporations who plan the “final colonization of life itself” by seeking to patent plant genes and germ plasms.74

Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)

Managed Marketplaces

sari and • 45 cards

Partnerships

Ted Glasnow • 1 card

OpenSea’s ValueFirst, two more OpenSea stories from over the break. From Be In Crypto:NFT marketplace OpenSea has frozen $2.2 million worth of Bored Ape (BAYC) NFTs after they were reported as being stolen. The NFTs on the marketplace now have a warning saying that it is “reported for suspicious activity.” Buying and selling of such items are suspe... See more

stratechery.com • OpenSea Raises Money, Bans NFTs; OpenSea’s Value; Crypto’s Aggregators

by “monopoly,” we mean the kind of company that’s so good at what it does that no other firm can offer a close substitute. Google is a good example of a company that went from 0 to 1: it hasn’t competed in search since the early 2000s, when it definitively distanced itself from Microsoft and Yahoo!