América. Energia. Future Scenarios - Introduction. Six Delusions of Google's Arrogant Leaders - Google - Gawker. SExpand Google's CEO went to Abu Dhabi this week and preached. He sermonized about Google's exceptional virtue — its indifference to profit and supreme trustworthiness. His speech should have been shocking. Except that delusional self-righteousness is now routine at Google. Eric Schmidt's comments at the Abu Dhabi "media summit" certainly sound especially cocky even considering the Google CEO's past haughty pronouncements. "All this information that you have about us... Schmidt also said Google has been known to curb its own creepy impulses: "There are many, many things that Google could do, that we chose not to do...
Fortune wonders if Schmidt's comments are a sign of "a dangerous culture of self-righteousness. " But the CEO's remarks are just the latest in a series of prominent self-righteous statements from Googlers. Delusion 1: It's not about the money Here's what Schmidt said to a different crowd, of Wall Street analysts, in an October conference call: "We love cash. " Come on, St. Marshall Sahlins, The Original Affluent Society. This website has not been updated for some years. This website has been left as it may still contain useful content. Hunter-gatherers Hunter-gatherers consume less energy per capita per year than any other group of human beings.
Yet when you come to examine it the original affluent society was none other than the hunter's - in which all the people's material wants were easily satisfied. To accept that hunters are affluent is therefore to recognise that the present human condition of man slaving to bridge the gap between his unlimited wants and his insufficient means is a tragedy of modern times. There are two possible courses to affluence. Destutt de Tracy, "fish-blooded bourgeois doctrinaire" though he might have been, at least forced Marx to agree that "in poor nations the people are comfortable", whereas in rich nations, "they are generally poor".
Sources of the Misconception Current low opinions of the hunting-gathering economy need not be laid to neolithic ethnocentrism. "As the ! WebEc - WWW Resources in Economics - Framed. O Linux e a perspectiva da dádiva. Marx's Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844.