Do what the rest of us wage slaves do. Either: 1 Politely pretend to listen, whilst turning the call into that "mwah mwah" noise the teacher made in the Charlie Brown TV cartoons and counti… (View Post)

But also... Humanity has got richer by specialising and co-operating to get big jobs done. That's a good thing. But it does mean that the traditional humane ways of managing organisations and co… (View Post)

Clearly some version of "comfortable" that I haven't previously met. Can we have that nice banker family, Al and Alexandra, and their children Ali, Harry and Barry, back? (View Post)

Does that work in a world where the chain of ownership and management is so tangled, or the gap between bad action and horrible consequence is potentially so long? (View Post)

Yes and no. The thing about long-term choices is that, by the time the foolishness of bad choices becomes clear, the people who made those choices have largely moved on. Choir Invisible and all that.… (View Post)