5 Reasons People Keep Taking Advantage Of You
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5 Reasons People Keep Taking Advantage Of You
The problem is rooted in the central falsehood that choice from a menu of options constitutes power. Ultimately, this serves to reinforce the idea that the limit of our agency as individuals is exactly that, as individuals, when the challenges we face are fundamentally collective, and require collective action in response.
Brian Eno • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
In medieval society, the successful and rich concentrated in certain areas, but cyberspace doesn’t require this. Instead, you can keep pushing out the boundaries and claiming new frontiers, and in doing so, pulling more resources away from governments and the physical world and into cyberspace.
James Dale Davidson • The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State
If your role is focused on creating user and customer value, but management and leadership are incentivized to goose shareholder value, you are subject to that structural relationship and often have very little power to change it.
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When asked what they do for a living, most people describe the tasks they perform every day, not the purpose of the greater enterprise in which they take part. Most see themselves within a system over which they have little or no influence. They do their job, put in their time, and try to cope with the forces outside of their control. Consequently,
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