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My money, your cause, what now?

Seth Godin explores the increasing dilemas facing us in our expanding global economy. Food for thought for my draft essay Responsible Capitalism.

Interesting.

I started thinking about it several years back when many businesses in my hometown were ruined by Walmart pricing so much below what the local retailers could afford. Now the local stores are gone and so is Walmart. And I gotta drive thirty minutes to buy a box of bolts.

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Big Brother is coming, and not from where we thought he would.
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When did a laidback hacker company become bent on world domination?

If true hackers can be drug in to this overly capitalistic mentality, is there hope for everyone else?

More and more my image of Google is being tarnished by things like this.

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The idea of making a small amount of money from a large amount of people has always interested. Lately I have been thinking about the concept of donationware. In the course of my normal coding projects, I’m always coming up with mini-apps that would be great to release to the rest of the world. Maybe micropayments is the way to go.

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