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Pivot podcast host Scott Galloway: 'Tech bros conflate luck with talent'
The US academic on why the Mr Burns caricature of rich people is wrong, the double-edged sword of godlike technologies, and why young people shouldn’t follow their passion
He is a fierce critic of tech companies and their business models and he has written five books, the latest of which is The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Economic Security. There’s this cartoon of Monty Burns in The Simpsons, the guy who owns the power plant, who has no friends, who lights cigars with a hundred dollar bill. What I’ve found is if you find something you’re good at with a high employment rate, the accoutrements of mastery of that business – economic security, camaraderie, prestige – will make you passionate about that thing.
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