In an innovation which is pretty cyberpunk, I’ve run into N>2 instances of professionals in Japan using a Facebook account named, without loss of generality, Taro Company. This is presumably because FB messenger runs a lot of Japan business communications.
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Replying to @patio11
Weird inversion of how the British East India Company was sometimes nicknamed “John Company”
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I think this device was literally used in Snow Crash (receive a last name when you gain an organizational affiliation on employment e.g. John FBI) but I might be misremembering the book.
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I understand the third tweet in this sequence (patronym = corporate / clan affiliation) but I don't quite follow the first two expand, plz?
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also, a question for both of you: reading this via Byrne https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2018/5/21/invisible-asymptotes … & had a thought: if we went through a 25 or 50 year period of socialism, what subtle but important aspects of capitalism might we forget as a culture? Not forecasting - socialists (try) to do that
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any suggestions / candidates ?
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Prestige in government: how big a problem are you trying to solve? Prestige in private sector: how big a problem do you solve? We’d lose that—the idea that it’s a big win to make your job obsolete.
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excellent, TY !
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