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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Jan 2017
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      2/ A central fact of free-market capitalism is that capital does not care HOW it gains a return, and has no natural "time horizon"

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Jan 2017
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      3/ Like evolution, capital-seeking-returns is a blind and means-agnostic process. The sole justification for what works is that it works

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Jan 2017
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      4/ It takes a human investor to care about a) how a return is generated b) over what time period it is generated

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Jan 2017
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      5/ There are two kinds of "good for business" environments, which I think of as "stacked for profiteering" and "stacked for innovation"

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Jan 2017
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      6/ In stacked-for-profiteering environment, main asset you need to do business is large pile of concentrated capital. Bigger is better. Why?

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Jan 2017
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      7/ To jumpstart very rapid economic performance you need BIG numbers quickly. It takes a big bump to create growth on a $13 trillion base.

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Jan 2017
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      8/ That's why the go-to is energy (gas, oil, coal) and dismantling public sector institutions (allowing a "prime contractor" economy)

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Jan 2017
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      9/ A stacked-for-profiteering economy isn't growing wealth. It is moving it around in very large chunks, creating illusion of wealth-making

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Jan 2017
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      10/ The logic is mercantilist, zero-sum, even if it doesn't have a legible basis like land or mineral rights.

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    10. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Jan 2017
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      11/ But there is another kind of good-for-business: stacked for innovation. You need some capital, but more capital is not linearly "better"

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Jan 2017
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      12/ As modern startup tropes go, you don't even need 2 guys in garage with circuit boards anymore. 1 guy with a laptop at starbucks will do.

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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Jan 2017
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          13/ What you *do* need is safe, liberal environment that rewards curiosity, allows people with diverse identities to live cheaply, together

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Jan 2017
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          14/ Stacked-for-profiteering needs high financial capital, low cultural capital (homogeneous rich crowd at Davos is enough to make it work)

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        2. Bea Webb‏ @beauwebb14 18 Jan 2017
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          all that guy's doing is squirreling away at the lowest order. the starbucks& the city it's in: they're the crest of a geopolitical wave

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        3. Bea Webb‏ @beauwebb14 18 Jan 2017
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          everything about that guy has been underwritten by American power-

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