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Life Inc. audiobook
- By: Douglas Rushkoff
- Narrator: Douglas Rushkoff
- Category: Business & Economics, Workplace Culture
- Length: 11 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2009
- Language: English
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Life Inc. Audiobook Summary
This didn’t just happen.
In Life Inc., award-winning writer, documentary filmmaker, and scholar Douglas Rushkoff traces how corporations went from being convenient legal fictions to being the dominant fact of contemporary life. Indeed, as Rushkoff shows, most Americans have so willingly adopted the values of corporations that they’re no longer even aware of it.
This fascinating journey, from the late Middle Ages to today, reveals the roots of our debacle. From the founding of the first chartered monopoly to the branding of the self; from the invention of central currency to the privatization of banking; from the birth of the modern, self-interested individual to his exploitation through the false ideal of the single-family home; from the Victorian Great Exhibition to the solipsism of MySpace–the corporation has infiltrated all aspects of our daily lives. Life Inc. exposes why we see our homes as investments rather than places to live, our 401(k) plans as the ultimate measure of success, and the Internet as just another place to do business.
Most of all, Life Inc. shows how the current financial crisis is actually an opportunity to reverse this six-hundred-year-old trend and to begin to create, invest, and transact directly rather than outsource all this activity to institutions that exist solely for their own sakes.
Corporatism didn’t evolve naturally. The landscape on which we are living–the operating system on which we are now running our social software–was invented by people, sold to us as a better way of life, supported by myths, and ultimately allowed to develop into a self-sustaining reality. It is a map that has replaced the territory.
Rushkoff illuminates both how we’ve become disconnected from our world and how we can reconnect to our towns, to the value we can create, and, mostly, to one another. As the speculative economy collapses under its own weight, Life Inc. shows us how to build a real and human-scaled society to take its place.
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Life Inc. Full Details
| Narrator | Douglas Rushkoff |
| Length | 11 hours 27 minutes |
| Author | Douglas Rushkoff |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | April 27, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780307702326 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Life Inc. is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: economics, corporations, history, politics, non-fiction, capitalism, corporatism, business, society, culture, sociology, media, business books, work, books about business, management books, management, money, communication, how to, inspirational, inspiration, wealth, social science, social sciences, social science books, finances, social, rich, business economics, decision making, value, influence, human behavior, business book, performance, nonfiction book, dollar, skills, ideas, handbook, wisdom, leader, data, talent, power, non fiction, Business & Economics, Workplace Culture, Business & Economics, Corporate Finance, Social Science, Anthropology, Cultural The BISAC Subject Code is Business & Economics, Workplace Culture
Additional info
The publisher of the Life Inc. is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780307702326.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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