BusinessTown

I started this project in 2015 with cute animals doing funny sounding new economy jobs. As it grew it added visionaries, disruptors and hackers. Then opportunists and con men. Violent billionaire dictator is not a random result here; it’s a parallel outcome of move-fast-and-break-things culture — an idea that only works for people who are so privileged and insulated that they have little to lose by plowing ahead without thinking about the consequences. 

Stop idolizing a few jackasses that won the VC lottery and listen to marginalized people instead. Have the hard conversations with our kids that so many of our parents avoided. 

This guy says it better than anyone:

“That’s the problem of leaving any kind of disaster preparedness up to the market and market forces — it will never work,” said Dr. John Hick, who has advised HHS on pandemic preparedness since 2002. “The market is not going to give priority to a relatively no-frills but dependable ventilator that’s not expensive.”

Full article here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/coronavirus-us-ventilator-shortage.html