“They built giant, globe-spanning organizations, that employed tens of thousands of people working around the clock, to produce… sugar water, fast food, disposable razors, and gas guzzlers. Perhaps the defining characteristic of the paradigm of 20th Century capitalism was its astonishing lack of ambition. Rarely in history has such a void, a poverty of imagination been so deeply woven into the fabric of humankind’s economic systems.”
The 23rd century historian that lives in Umair Haque’s head wrote that.
Haven’t quoted Umair in a while. He’s a character. Excited to have him back on MPM.
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