[FRIAM] Roger Mcnamee !!??

[Frank Wimberly]

Hmm.  In the late sixties my younger sister urged me to go to her stylist
and to request that my hair "be styled in a razor cut."  To me the result
looked the same as when I went to my barber.

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On Sun, Jan 2, 2022, 1:18 PM Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com> wrote:

> Nick writes:
>
> < Imagined a world in which we all worked at home, everything was on
> zoom, and everything was delivered by Amazon by drone.  I realize this is a
> reductio, but hum along with me for a few bars.  There would be no
> intermediate social landscape between the home and the distribution
> center.  No intermediate human scales.
>
>
>
> I can’t say immediately why this would be a bad thing, but my gut doesn’t
> like it.>
>
>
> I can't think of many examples where the intermediate scales are anything
> but wasteful or intrusive.   Maybe to see a tailor coupled to the purchase
> of certain clothes?  I still drive to services (dentist, doctor, hair
> stylist), just not to redistributors, because they don't really add
> anything.   There's still a farmer's market that seems as popular as ever
> -- but they DO offer something unique.    I can drive five minutes to Home
> Depot but honestly half the time their inventory is exhausted for what I
> want, and I end up ordering it online.
>
>
> Marcus
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of
> thompnickson2 at gmail.com <thompnickson2 at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Sunday, January 2, 2022 1:03 PM
> *To:* 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' <
> friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Roger Mcnamee !!??
>
>
> Marcus,
>
>
>
> I would like to be convinced …. But
>
>
>
> Imagined a world in which we all worked at home, everything was on zoom,
> and everything was delivered by Amazon by drone.  I realize this is a
> reductio, but hum along with me for a few bars.  There would be no
> intermediate social landscape between the home and the distribution
> center.  No intermediate human scales.
>
>
>
> I can’t say immediately why this would be a bad thing, but my gut doesn’t
> like it.
>
>
>
> Nick
>
>
>
> Nick Thompson
>
> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
>
> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
>
>
>
> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Marcus Daniels
> *Sent:* Sunday, January 2, 2022 1:38 PM
> *To:* 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' <
> friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Roger Mcnamee !!??
>
>
>
> I can see living without Facebook (I do), but why can't we live with
> Amazon?   It seems like they did a pretty good job of displacing the likes
> of Walmart.  It could happen again.  What added inherent value do stores
> have, other than as a mechanism to prevent he consolidation of market
> influence w.r.t. to prices?
> ------------------------------
>
> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of
> thompnickson2 at gmail.com <thompnickson2 at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Sunday, January 2, 2022 12:03 PM
> *To:* 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' <
> friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject:* [FRIAM] Roger Mcnamee !!??
>
>
>
> I just listened to this podcast
>
>
>
> https://feeds.megaphone.fm/VMP5489734702
>
>
>
> a conversation between the former prosecutor, Joyce Vance, and the
> musician, financier, turncoat Facebook investor Roger Mcnamee, who likens
> this moment with big tech to the moment before the food industry
> regulations of the early 1900’s and anti-pollution legislation of the 60’s,
> moments when Da People reasserted control over over-weening industry
> interests.  He is author of the book, *Zucked*.
>
>
>
> An hour-long pod cast is a terribly inefficient way to learn about
> something, so I hope that one you, for whom none of this is news, can offer
> a more condensed source.
>
>
>
> We are basically talking about the Amazon paradox, here: can’t live with
> it; can’t live without it.  How much ARE we willing to pay to have the
> trains run on time?
>
>
>
> As usual, I am in need of instruction.
>
>
>
> Nick Thompson
>
> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
>
> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
>
>
>
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