Sublime
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By the late 1980s, Fink had supplanted Cato’s Ed Crane as Charles Koch’s main political lieutenant. Unlike Crane, who was interested in libertarian ideas but regarded it as “creepy when you have to deal with politicians,” Fink was fascinated by the nuts and bolts of power. After studying the Kochs’ political problems for six months, he drew up a
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She peered at men in the grocery store and wondered if they were undercover cops who knew that she lived with the man who had started the Silk Road.
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while Trump might have been elected by those he described as “the forgotten” men, he would have to deal with a Republican Party that had been shaped substantially by the billionaires of the radical Right.
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
When knowledge is unbundled from human labor and becomes accessible as capital, it gains three essential traits. It becomes rentable, as you can access it without long-term commitments. It becomes recombinable, since different forms of expertise can be recombined without the overhead of coordinating across siloed teams. And it becomes scalable:
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