Confucius – Why we need rituals, Tech Giants and the Myth of Job Creation & Metaverse, Mars, meditation retreats: billionaires want to escape the world they ruined
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Confucius 孔夫子, one of the great Chinese thinkers, was known to always carefully straighten his mat before he sat down
Why?
Virtue – from inside to outside
Living in a time of political turmoil Confucius wondered how to create a better society. His answer was that we do not need an elaborate system of rules. What we need is people – and in particular leaders – with good character. Instead of telling others what to do…
… we can start with ourselves.
Source: Confucius – Why we need rituals
The last two decades have witnessed unprecedented growth in a handful of technology giants. The large economies of scale that exist in digital industries have often led to oligopolistic structures, in which a few emerging players are dominating large shares of the market.
The prominent four players — Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Apple, — together this quartet have a market capitalization of 2.8 trillion (GDP of India), a staggering 24 percent share of the S&P 500 Top 50, close to the value of every stock traded on the Nasdaq in 2001.
They have not only succeeded in creating enormous wealth that has helped millions of families across the planet to earn economic security for themselves but also transformed how we shop, search, & socialize on the six-inch pocket-friendly device.
Source: Tech Giants and the Myth of Job Creation
On Thursday Facebook announced a groundbreaking and innovative new distraction from their PR disaster. As journalists continue to pore over thousands of leaked documents that show the company is fully aware that it is degrading democratic societies, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook is changing its name to Meta, has a new logo that looks like a Na’vi bending over, and is going to pivot from spreading vaccine disinformation to creating a super-lame version of Second Life.
Zuckerberg promised that in the future we would all work, play, and “organize surprise birthday parties” as avatars in Facebook’s virtual-reality “Metaverse”. His examples of how this might work had all the cultural awareness of a Kendall Roy social media strategy.
Source: Metaverse, Mars, meditation retreats: billionaires want to escape the world they ruined
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Piyush Kamal
Ex-IRS, Economist, and a Published Author who loves to play at the intersection of Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology, and Philosophy.
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