Life, Games And Utopia
December, 2015
JAMES SOMERSHow do you justify the crushing grind of capitalism? Change your idea of "work" About a year ago, investors gave $40 million to the 20-person software firm I work for. The deal was typical of Silicon Valley in that no one would make out unless the company became worth about 10 figures; anything less would be a failure. So the arrival of the money felt less like a windfall than a hand grenade: Act fast or it all blows up. It had the effect, in other words, that capital is s...
