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#France: The tactical garbage strike in Paris and the strategic thinking pensioners vs Macron.. Simon Constable, Briefings Magazine.

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 16 March 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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#France: The tactical garbage strike in Paris and the strategic thinking pensioners vs Macron.. Simon Constable, Briefings Magazine.
https://www.politico.eu/article/paris-garbage-strike-rats/



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The SVB failure Silicon Valley Bang, touching a great number of startups, well-established tech

0:37.8

companies, Silicon Valley itself, and then spreading around the world.

0:42.8

Tech, when it loses financing or it has trouble with its credit lines, can go away.

0:49.6

I welcome Simon Constable, writing at Briefings magazine about how tech, having periodic

0:57.0

can-go-away moments makes everything else healthier.

1:01.3

For example, do you recall all of those boy-ent-tech startups with fax machines?

1:08.6

Simon, a very good day to you.

1:11.1

Tech needs every once in a while to fail miraculously.

1:16.9

And we're witnessing events like that possible now because of the tech financing.

1:21.8

Why is it healthy?

1:23.1

How do we learn from this that the future is not entirely in the hands of the young geniuses?

1:31.8

Good evening to you.

1:33.4

Good evening to you, John.

1:34.8

Well, it is sort of in the hands of the young geniuses, but the young geniuses grow older

1:40.0

and then new young geniuses come along.

1:42.6

So what you need for tech to continue working is innovation, disruption, destruction, destruction

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