Dear all,
🎉Today’s the day 🎉My book Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age is now available for purchase on Amazon. 👉 Get your copy here! 👈
What will you find in it? It’s a book about the economic, social, political and global dimensions of our current crisis—and what urgently needs to be done about it.
Granted: The feeling of being in a crisis is nothing new. But something changed lately: technology is seen as part of the problem rather than the solution. If you read the headlines, tech companies don’t pay their taxes. They destroy jobs. They contribute to rising real estate prices and inequalities. They’re even corrupting democracy.
The real turning point was the 2008 financial crisis. And the period that we’re going through bears a striking resemblance with what the Western world experienced with the Great Depression: the trade wars, the decoupling of productivity and wages, and an adverse political reaction to the demands of the new working class of the day.
Yet th…