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check out The Utopia of Rules by David Graeber https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Utopia_of_Rules

A lot of this is about bureaucracy

why is there a video of ordering room service in the middle of the post?

exactly

> When she heard that Jeff Bezos was getting married in Venice this June, Heather Jane Johnson felt worse than she had in her entire life. Twenty-five years ago, she ceased trading as a bookseller in Boston, Massachusetts. “I lost a lot because of Bezos and the complicity of Americans in the making of Amazon,” the 53-year-old says. “A big reason I moved to Italy is because I felt betrayed by my countrypeople.”

I like how she blames the "complicity of Americans in the making of Amazon", which I believe gets overlooked a lot. Isn't one way of eliminating billionaires to stop using their products?

If she continues to use Amazon it’s probably in her best interest to be a prime member. No point in cancelling if you continued to constantly use Amazon.

tell me about backpacking through the andes. one question - where do you sleep ?

It says on each book page "Compatible epub — All devices and apps except Kindles and Kobos." - but i think this is incorrect bc epub is now the preferred format for Kindle.

sapolsky has a new book, check it out on this pod https://www.econtalk.org/robert-sapolsky-on-determinism-free...

This article reads like an article telling everything wrong with today's internet. not unlike https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37509507