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Showing posts with label commerce. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 1, 2026

Ryan Bridge: Commerce will always find a way eventually


Good morning, and I really do mean, good morning.

Four months ago, war kicked off in the middle east. A year earlier the tariff war kicked off all over the world.

And yet today the following things are happening, regardless.

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Matt Ridley: How Facebook captured capitalist "Kumbaya"

Human beings love sharing. We swap, collaborate, care, support, donate, volunteer and generally work for each other. We tend to admire sharing when it's done for free but frown upon it-or consider it a necessary evil-when it's done for profit. Some think that online, we're at the dawn of a golden age of free sharing, the wiki world, in which commerce will be replaced by mass communal sharing-what the futurist John Perry Barlow called "dot communism."

Certainly, in recent years we all rushed to put our reviews on Amazon, our travel experiences on TripAdvisor, our photographs on Flickr, and our innermost secrets on Facebook without expecting to profit from doing so.