Via Business Insider: “As the war over income inequality wages on, super-rich Seattle entrepreneur Nick Hanauer has been raising the hackles of his fellow 1-percenters, espousing the contrarian argument that rich people don’t actually create jobs. The position is controversial — so much so that TED is refusing to post a talk that Hanauer gave on the subject. National Journal reports today that TED officials decided not to put Hanauer’s March 1 speech up online after deeming his remarks “too politically controversial” for the site…”.
Well worth a watch as he makes some very interesting points.
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‘Venus’ by Nick Mulvey is my new jam.
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Hills the Shape of Time →
Tom Southam writing for Rapha on La Doyene, Liege Bastogne Liege, my favourite of the classics. It happens this Sunday
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“If there is a hard, high wall and an egg that breaks against it, no matter how right the wall or how wrong the egg, I will stand on the side of the egg. Why? Because each of us is an egg, a unique soul enclosed in a fragile egg. Each of us is confronting a high wall. The high wall is the system which forces us to do the things we would not ordinarily see fit to do as individuals … We are all human beings, individuals, fragile eggs. We have no hope against the wall: it’s too high, too dark, too cold. To fight the wall, we must join our souls together for warmth, strength. We must not let the system control us — create who we are. It is we who created the system. (Jerusalem Prize acceptance speech, JERUSALEM POST, Feb. 15, 2009)”
― Haruki Murakami
I love this, it sums up how I feel so often from serious subjects like politics to sport, I’ll always back the egg.
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‘She Just Likes To Fight’ by Four Tet is my new jam.
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Freight train at the disco, or Sunderland station
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Freight train spotlights
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‘Wires’ by Floating Points is my new jam.
