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Niall Ferguson: Writing History with Data
"World of DaaS"
We're Not Getting Together to Change the World
I think I'm struck by the way in which people very explicitly say we're getting together to change the world. And one reason that those people generally don't change the world is that they have shown their intentions far too transparently. It's best not to flag your intentions when you're a relatively weak poorly resource and rather decentralized network. So if anyone's listening Neil and I are not starting a secret society we're definitely not doing that. No, we're just we're actually pillars of the established order. That's what we are. We really like things as they are we would never dream of changing them. If you if you expect the wealth holders to let you radically alter the distribution
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