Polynomial!: Lol: Lenin at Yahoo!

01/27/2007

Lol: Lenin at Yahoo!

From Mind the Gap by Paul Graham:

Materially and socially, technology seems to be decreasing the gap between the rich and the poor, not increasing it. If Lenin walked around the offices of a company like Yahoo or Intel or Cisco, he'd think communism had won. Everyone would be wearing the same clothes, have the same kind of office (or rather, cubicle) with the same furnishings, and address one another by their first names instead of by honorifics. Everything would seem exactly as he'd predicted, until he looked at their bank accounts. Oops.

Posted on 01/27/2007 at 23:14 in Business, Economics, Politics | Permalink

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Adhaero (Hemel Hampstead)
Software localization of (now-defunct) DRM product suite for Microsoft Office (2003, mokka'logic)
Collaborative Commerce Marketplace (Coventry)
On-site consulting and co-development of .NET-based, intelligent supply chain management solution (2005, Tometa)
dSPACE (Paderborn)
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