BusinessTown

An ongoing project attempting to explain our highly intangible, deeply disruptive, data-driven, venture-backed, gluten-free economic meritocracy to the uninitiated. With apologies to Richard Scarry.

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I started this project in 2015 with cute animals doing funny sounding new economy jobs. As it grew it added visionaries, disruptors and hackers. Then opportunists and con men. Violent billionaire dictator is not a random result here; it’s a parallel outcome of move-fast-and-break-things culture — an idea that only works for people who are so privileged and insulated that they have little to lose by plowing ahead without thinking about the consequences. 

Stop idolizing a few jackasses that won the VC lottery and listen to marginalized people instead. Have the hard conversations with our kids that so many of our parents avoided. 

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This guy says it better than anyone:

“That’s the problem of leaving any kind of disaster preparedness up to the market and market forces — it will never work,” said Dr. John Hick, who has advised HHS on pandemic preparedness since 2002. “The market is not going to give priority to a relatively no-frills but dependable ventilator that’s not expensive.”

Full article here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/coronavirus-us-ventilator-shortage.html

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We’re being led by clowns. #plaguecapitalism /

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BusinessTown is making a selective return to document the emerging realities of plague capitalism. #FatteningTheCurve #PlagueCapitalism /

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Second half of that marketing spread... /

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Extremely overdue content: so last winter I was approached by an agent to pitch a Businesstown book. I went all in on that for about a month and really enjoyed the process and feedback but didn't t find a home for the project. I'm working on new projects these days with original characters and when that's ready to share l'll post here...in the meantime, I'm going to post some images from the book pitch: Today here's two images showing a spread introducing the chapter on Marketing... /

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Felt like this one needed an update in light of yesterday's events. /

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This guy. /

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Totes had to post this new character #blessed #gratitude #hashtags /

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Here's a look in the mirror... /

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Beware the Apex Predators. /

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Yo dawg I heard you like Instagram so I put an Instagram in your Instagram so you can Instagram while you Instagram. /