IKEA guy saying it's easier to make commitments to 100% such and such, that way you get to really focus on it, and gain economy of scale.
Steve Howard
Why Markets aren't good everywhere. Michael Sandel
They mess us up and make us equate things to money which shouldn't be. Things we can't get back, things we don't want to sell.
Why Business can be good at solving social problems - it is scalable. Michael Porter
I agree, and I would incorporate this into the employment agency, but I think we'll still be in trouble if we continue to use money as a benchmark of success though.
Can technology solve big problems? Yes, but we need 4 things
1. Political leaders and the public must care to solve it
2. Institutions must support its solution
3. It must really be a technological problem (I wonder what his definition of technology is? Mine is pretty loose)
4. We must understand it
Jason Pontin