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Part One: Jack Welch Is Why You Got Laid Off

Behind the Bastards

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The Rise of Milton Friedman

In 1970, Milton Friedman wrote that the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits. In today's world, when your shit breaks down, you got to buy it twice as fast. The author Alvin Toffler invents the idea of project management and talks about a future where there's no stability and no security. He rails against the idea that corporations have any responsibility to society or to its employees.

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