magpie 49/ the great carrot robbery
The rise of 21st century train robbery -- awesome long read from NYTimes.
“Sometimes products stolen out of Amazon containers are resold by third-party sellers back on Amazon in a kind of strange ouroboros, in which the snakehead of capitalism hungrily swallows its piracy tail“
Yeah I had to look up ouroboros too.
I’m convinced that you can find a private-equity owned duopoly anywhere you look -- this time it's Carrots via the Big Newsletter
In typical New Yorker fashion, this essay is full of good advice but also reminds you that people have been obsessed with optimizing their productivity forever and ever. There really aren't many new ideas
Fun idea - is Origami Turing complete? meet the Origami Computer
Empires were necessary precursors to Corporations - seems obvious but this is an interesting legal analysis of late imperial China and the role of that state in commerce and corporate formation.
This review is so dense I know I’ll never get through the actual book. But what an interesting frame from which to look at the world:The Moral Economies of Money