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Profits Without Prosperity (Harvard Business Review)
- Narrated by: Todd Mundt
- Length: 31 mins
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- Categories: Business & Careers, Management & Leadership
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- J. Young
- 14-10-20
A must listen
I've read everything the author has done, and the idea of value extraction for the benefit of the few, while asking for more tax payer money for bailouts, or R&D on their products.
Airlines are demanding billions of dollars of taxpayer dollars while they've spent 12 trillion across the last decade buying back their own stock.
Imagine how much better this country would be in terms infrastructure, healthcare, education if we stopped funneling taxpayer dollars to corporations to pay for what they should be paying for.