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Business Giants: Rise, Fall, and Change

🤖 AI 📅 2025-06-15 ID: 8759b5c07734
Okay, so let's dive into this chapter, it's all about, you know, business in society, the role of business, how it's changed, that kind of thing. It kicks off with a really interesting quote about new...
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Love the Product, Hate the Producer?

🤖 AI 📅 2025-06-15 ID: 44cfca9958ee
Okay, so, this chapter, I guess you could call it, is all about this weird disconnect, right? Like, you love the product, but you kinda hate the producer. And it kicks off with this quote from a Senat...
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Pharma's Wild Ride: From Snake Oil to Science

🤖 AI 📅 2025-06-15 ID: 32d7c6f8ac48
Okay, so, you know, pharmaceuticals. What a story, right? It's like, on one hand, you have this incredible history of, you know, saving lives, developing drugs that have, like, literally changed the w...
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Beyond the Benjamins: Human Drives

🤖 AI 📅 2025-06-15 ID: 997cf9cb5c27
Okay, so, like, let's talk about what really drives us, you know? Not just, like, making money, but what really gets us going, especially in the world of, like, business and economics. So, think abou...
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Decoding Business: Labor, Capital & More

🤖 AI 📅 2025-06-15 ID: ed532c2e35d6
Okay, so I was reading this really interesting chapter about, like, the core ideas behind how we understand businesses, right? And it starts with this kinda funny quote from an economist named Robert ...
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Manufacturing's Machine Mindset

🤖 AI 📅 2025-06-15 ID: 550330915b93
Okay, so, let's talk about, uh, manufacturing. This whole idea of how things get made, right? So, you know, there's this quote from Andrew Carnegie, about how the best way to stay on top is to, you k...
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Corporations: Profit Without Responsibility?

🤖 AI 📅 2025-06-15 ID: 50e26fa75ec5
Okay, so, let's talk about corporations. It's kind of a wild ride when you start digging into it. You know, there's this quote from Ambrose Bierce that's always stuck with me, something about corporat...
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Fortune's Fickle Finger: The Rise and Fall

🤖 AI 📅 2025-06-15 ID: dbf2b42dab5d
So, I was reading this, right? And it got me thinking about, like, how much things change. This quote at the beginning was pretty heavy, something about all fortune being good fortune 'cause it either...
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Manufacturing's Fall: A Deeper Dive

🤖 AI 📅 2025-06-15 ID: 8240476206fb
Okay, so let's dive into this topic of, um, the decline of manufacturing. It's something you hear a lot about, right? And you see quotes like, "Where's it written that America can't lead in manufactur...
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Humans Triumph: Outpacing the Past

🤖 AI 📅 2025-06-15 ID: 591a5fe15975
Okay, so, I gotta tell you, things are getting better, like, all the time. Seriously! It's kind of amazing when you think about it. Humans are just, well, better at everything. Take running, for inst...
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From Magic to Maxwell: The Electric Business

🤖 AI 📅 2025-06-15 ID: 7fce72632aed
Okay, so, like, let's talk about business, right? And how things get better. It's kind of crazy to think about how much stuff that we just take for granted used to be totally unexplained. You know, li...
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The Value Question: What Is It?

🤖 AI 📅 2025-06-15 ID: 0af3bf043d1f
Okay, so, value. What is value, right? It's like, you could teach a parrot to squawk "supply and demand," and, you know, some people would say you've got yourself a top-notch economist! But seriously,...
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Economic Rent: Messi & More!

🤖 AI 📅 2025-06-15 ID: d411afa358f5
Okay, so, let's talk about, um, you know, economic rent. It's kind of a weird concept, right? I mean, like, the word "rent" makes you think of, like, your apartment or something. But in economics, it'...
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Corporations Ascendant: Mid-Century Tensions

🤖 AI 📅 2025-06-15 ID: fb30cd3f2060
Okay, so, you know, let's talk about what was going on in the sort of, mid to late twentieth century. It's, like, a really interesting time when you think about business and society. So, the sixties, ...
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Beyond Theory: Reimagining the Firm

🤖 AI 📅 2025-06-15 ID: db4605c1ba57
Okay, so, um, this section is all about, like, the modern theory of the firm, right? And it starts with this kind of funny quote attributed to Ely Devons by Ronald Coase, saying that if economists wan...
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16

Who Really Owns the Company?

🤖 AI 📅 2025-06-15 ID: 2d6f5659aceb
Okay, so, like, have you ever stopped to think about what it really means to own something? I mean, we throw that word around all the time, "I own this," "I own that," but is it really that simple? Th...
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Profit Above All? Law vs. Reality

🤖 AI 📅 2025-06-15 ID: a9a2542e3076
Okay, so let's talk about whether companies have to maximize profits. It's a really interesting question and, you know, it's not as straightforward as you might think. See, we're not really talking ab...
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Borrowing Earth: A Water Company's Tale

🤖 AI 📅 2025-06-15 ID: cbb20d25e9fd
Okay, so, this is about something I've been thinking about a lot, this whole idea of kind of, you know, borrowing the earth from our children instead of inheriting it from our ancestors. It's a quote ...
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Shareholder Value: Myth or Magic?

🤖 AI 📅 2025-06-15 ID: e409f4d54b13
Okay, so, um, this chapter is called "The Dumbest Idea in the World," which, right off the bat, is pretty strong, right? And it kicks off with a quote from Jack Welch, the CEO of General Electric back...
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From Stuff to Stocks: Wealth's Wild Ride

🤖 AI 📅 2025-06-15 ID: e30c9fa4a2f6
Okay, so, like, for most of history, when we think about wealth, we're talking about actual stuff, you know? Like, back in the day, the richest people, they had the best houses, the biggest lands, you...
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M&A Mania: How Acquisitions Exploded

🤖 AI 📅 2025-06-15 ID: cca9ab52c86a
Okay, so, like, you know how sometimes you hear about these massive corporate deals and mergers and acquisitions, right? Well, it's kind of crazy when you think about how that whole world, like, reall...
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Deals: The Mess Behind the Masterpiece

🤖 AI 📅 2025-06-15 ID: be3564218997
Okay, so, like, let's talk about... well, not exactly pretty pictures, you know? More like, the stuff behind the scenes of big deals, the kind that maybe aren't as shiny as they seem. You know, there'...
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23

Fallen Giants: When Business Kills Innovation

🤖 AI 📅 2025-06-15 ID: 243d506f2021
Okay, so, let's talk about these businesses that, well, used to be icons. You know, companies that were just, like, the top dogs in their fields. There's this quote, I think it kinda sums up a lot of...
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The Finance Curse: Short-Term Gain, Long-Term Pain

🤖 AI 📅 2025-06-15 ID: a2a2dbdfb24d
Okay, so I wanted to talk a little bit about this idea, this concept of the "finance curse." It's, uh, it's something that's really been bugging me, and I think it's super relevant to what's been goin...
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The Office: Is It Obsolete?

🤖 AI 📅 2025-06-15 ID: 908e78353ec3
Okay, so, like, I was reading this thing, right? And it was talking about all these companies, and how, like, even though we can all work from home now, it's, it's not really the same. Like, the CEOs ...
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Hierarchy: From Rigid Rules to Serving People

🤖 AI 📅 2025-06-15 ID: 78cc29b5613d
Okay, so, like, let's talk about hierarchy. It’s funny, right? 'Cause you think about old-school corporations, like, way back when, like the East India Company, all super rigid, uniforms, the whole sh...
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Beyond the Fine Print: Relational Contracts

🤖 AI 📅 2025-06-15 ID: f7866503085e
Okay, so, I was just reading this really interesting stuff, and it got me thinking. It starts with this quote, right? "Lawyers who'll spend ages, like sixty pages, on contracts for their clients becau...
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Chapter 40 (AI Rewrite)

🤖 AI 📅 2025-06-15 ID: 8f35892f96b2
Okay, so, um, let's talk about the, uh, "hollow corporation." Yeah, it's kind of a weird term, right? It brings to mind this, like, empty shell of a business. But it's actually a really interesting co...
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Chapter 41 (AI Rewrite)

🤖 AI 📅 2025-06-15 ID: 84fe2954d14a
Okay, so, Chapter 41… let's talk about capital. It's one of those words, isn't it, that we use all the time, but what does it actually mean? Really? So, first off, there's capital as a factor of prod...
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Chapter 42 (AI Rewrite)

🤖 AI 📅 2025-06-15 ID: 06bb22fd5b70
Okay, so, like, I wanted to talk a bit about this concept of "capital as a service." You know, it's kind of a mind-bending idea, but it's really how a lot of modern businesses operate these days. Thin...
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Chapter 43 (AI Rewrite)

🤖 AI 📅 2025-06-15 ID: c05cf57c11dd
Okay, so I was reading this, like, super interesting thing about capital and wealth, and it really got me thinking. You know, we throw these terms around all the time, but do we really know what they ...
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Chapter 44 (AI Rewrite)

🤖 AI 📅 2025-06-15 ID: 3fa5fb4c7fea
Okay, so, who are the capitalists now, right? That's the question. You know, back in the day, like we're talking, way back, Engels described them as, uh, you know, the folks who owned pretty much ever...
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Chapter 45 (AI Rewrite)

🤖 AI 📅 2025-06-15 ID: f5eca6eab7a9
Okay, so, like, let's dive into this whole thing about capital, right? It's kinda funny how we've stretched the word "capital" to cover, like, everything these days. You hear about, like, intangible c...
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Embracing Ambiguity: A Feature, Not a Bug

🤖 AI 📅 2025-06-15 ID: a1b9d482f21a
So, I was thinking about ambiguity, right? And how we often see it as a problem, like a bug in the system. But what if it's actually a feature? I mean, think about it. On the road from, like, this "Ci...
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Beyond Capitalism: Who's Really in Charge?

🤖 AI 📅 2025-06-15 ID: 1feb5660f016
Okay, so, like, let's talk about what comes after capitalism, you know? Like, if you think about it, capitalism, it really built up science, right? Made it, like, a productive force. But, kinda ironic...
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