
“In America and in rich countries the world over, for many workers, the warehouse is the new factory.”
― Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door -- Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy
― Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door -- Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy
“What Keynes got wrong is what lots of people get wrong about the relationship between new technologies, increased productivity, and jobs. New technologies don't eliminate jobs. As living standards rise, humans find new ways to consume more. Just as important, every time we automate a task, we tend to use more of that product or service, in combination with others, to accomplish some other more complicated or difficult end.”
― Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door-Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy
― Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door-Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy
“People who are invested in dreams of technology easing our burdens by giving us more power over the world often forget that technology in no way changes the power structures that govern it.”
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“If two men fight in the streets the policeman separates them and everybody thinks how silly they are. But how much sillier and more foolish is it for great countries to fight each other and kill thousands and millions.”
― Letters from a Father to his Daughter
― Letters from a Father to his Daughter

“It is better to be a warrior in a garden, than a gardener in a war.”
― The Book of Five Rings
― The Book of Five Rings

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