The rhetoric of economics, and why liberalism works host Deirdre Mccloskey gun in your moscome in your most re, why liberalism works, you write that the west side of chicago should be a heigh high first commercial at diggity. Guest because then people would have jobs other than dope sellers and can because once it was before the highly segregated history of chicago extended to the west side there were lots of factories and jobs, and now because of regulations of various, its not. Its just a free zone. There are some by the sheer act of will kept th take to the strn good condition. Host use a regulations. Give an example. Guest business in chicago in most places in the united hates its worse than brazil or egypt. It takes months. Its hard to do. Youve got to get permits and a business license to braid hair, a famous case. To earn a living breathing hair you need a state license. Why should people have to jump rough these hoops to start a business . In the 50s and africanamerican and urb
Rushkoff, you describe yourself in your latest book, survival of the richest as a humanist who writes about the impacts of digital technologies, but not a futurist. Whats the difference between the two . Well, a futurist is usually someone they come to to tell you whats going to happen in the future, and ive been right about that a lot so they call me a futurist, but really what i am is a presentist. Im more interested in looking at looking at and describing accurately what it happening right now and thats usually an easier way to know whats going to happen in the future, but i dont usually talk about it. I just most futurists they seem more like propagandists and they want to see their company in the best place or positioning them as a consultant in the most needed place and you get people interested in the future about scaring them, this is going to happen or thats going to happen about you but if youre a presentist, kind after cultural anthropologist or culturist, what is, you end u
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