The rest of the title: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us. I pretty good read about the culture of Silicon Valley has sort of permeated into other work and jobs. The idea of crazy hours, moving from one job to the next, no pensions, crazy work/reporting structures, being monitored the whole time at work, etc. This is a lot of how work has changed, certainly computers is a big driving factor on this. It is also the crazy valuations given to the dot.com businesses to where the traditional businesses probably feel they have to do these things to compete or risk getting bought out. What struck me in the book was talking about a quote from Milton Friedman where to paraphrase, business is only out to make profit. This is a short term view great for shareholders but long term not so good for the health of the business, employees, towns they work in and basically the US economy. A rethinking of capitalism probably needed and might be what we are seeing with the social democrat winning nomination for mayor of New York. I don't really enjoy reading about business but thought this wasn't too bad.
There are zero copies on PBS but no reason to post right now either.
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