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Show HN: Two HN tabs I found together, that concern me

by niels_olson on 12/13/16, 11:42 PM with 1 comments

I was reading Chappe and Chaudhary's essay The Supermanagerial Class, by way of a comment (2) and kept getting confused about which article I was reading, because the next tab over was Tetzeli's A Short History Of The Most Important Economic Theory In Tech (3).

It's a little disturbing when you're reading about Nazi Germany and realizing the economic model there sounds a lot like the top post on Hacker News about an economic model for Silicon Valley.

(1) https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-supermanagerial-reich/ (2) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12948142 (3) https://www.fastcompany.com/3064681/most-creative-people/most-important-economic-theory-in-technology-brian-arthur

by anigbrowl on 12/13/16, 11:57 PM
You definitely don't want to read any decent history books like The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich at the moment if you want to sleep well. I would particularly avoid focusing my attentions on the fiscal and legal history of the Weimar Republic, whose constitution nominally obtained until 1945 though it had been a dead letter for 12 years by then.