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by alecco 6443 days ago
Word count:

  must 11
  could 2
  perhaps/maybe 0
  fail 1
Doesn't it sound a bit too know-it-all? I would like to believe it because the idea looks good but the essay lacks evidence and observation. In particular, it seems to expect a very rational response from society as a whole. A very risky bet.
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swombat 6443 days ago
Exactly my feeling while reading this. There's not even the slightest justification or argument for his declarations. Great claims require great evidence. He may be right, but we have no way of even beginning to examine the correctness of his arguments, since he didn't present any arguments.
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wynand 6443 days ago
It is an essay after all. I think Umair means to provoke thought more than anything else.

If he is at least a bit right, then businesses will naturally converge to these ideas, without requiring deep rational inquiry (the rationalism will be limited to: "those guys are doing something new and it's working, so let us also do it").

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