Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 20, 2014
But an awful lot of these jobs command very high-wages in law, finance, accounting, consulting, advertising, engineering, design, software, healthcare, scientific research, architecture, entertainment, hospitality, and many other areas. True, some of these are low-paying, burger-flipper jobs.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 16, 2012
Acemoglu and Robinson call these extractive institutions — and according to them, institutions that extract value, instead of creating it (in my language, institutions that don't create thick value), are the roaring engines of decline. A life crisis, I'd say, is a crisis of human potential foregone. I think we have to stop conforming.
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