
Hamilton Nolan
Writer and Columnist at Freelance
Writer at How Things Work
Labor writer, @InTheseTimesMag. My site, How Things Work: https://t.co/P5BG1ZNpba Author of "The Hammer." Email: [email protected]
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6 days ago |
hamiltonnolan.com | Hamilton Nolan
If you are fortunate or unfortunate enough to spend time around people who work for big tech firms, you will find that their views on every issue tend to be rooted in the assumption that the tech industry itself will determine the future of said issue.
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1 week ago |
hamiltonnolan.com | Hamilton Nolan
Corporations are granted many advantages in America that have allowed them to amass great wealth and power for their executives and shareholders. Some of these advantages are codified on paper: Favorable regulations, favorable tax laws, the ability to be treated as persons for the sake of political donations, and so on.
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2 weeks ago |
hamiltonnolan.com | Hamilton Nolan
Like milling elephants mourning a deceased member of the herd, each unsuccessful election season will produce a scrum of wealthy donors wringing their hands over how to turn things around. Some portion of these people will, inevitably, fixate on the media.
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2 weeks ago |
hamiltonnolan.com | Hamilton Nolan
A basic but accurate model of investor capitalism is: Companies have expenses, and they have profits. The job of company managers is to minimize expenses and maximize profits, to the extent possible. The huge pools of capital controlled by investors will flow to the firms that produce the highest profits, with the same inexorable logic of a river flowing where gravity leads it. In return for their capital, investors want as much of a company’s profits to be given to them as possible.
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3 weeks ago |
hamiltonnolan.com | Hamilton Nolan
This week, Verizon became the latest major company to end its internal DEI program—a move made in order to win government approval for a $20 billion acquisition. In scrapping its diversity program, it joins a long list of corporations, universities, law firms, and government contractors of all types. Many of these organizations were doubtlessly happy to have an excuse to get out of the equity business. Some, perhaps, were upset. All are cowardly. None are a surprise.
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