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Passion is a desire, insistence, and willingness to give a gift. The artist is relentless. She says, “I will not feel complete until I give a gift.” This is more than refusing to do lousy work. It’s an insistence on doing important work.
Because infrastructural systems are mostly about nonmonetary benefits to people-their time, agency, comfort, and health-optimizing them for price, much less revenue and profit, misses these important aspects.
How Infrastructure Works
Deb Chachra
Politics legendarily creates strange bedfellows. Crypto companies are now asking the CFPB to revive a regulation protecting a business the first Trump administration kneecapped, after which the second Trump administration hollowed out that same agency, despite campaigning against kneecapping tech and crypto—leaving the CFPB, long a sworn enemy of big banks, in Chase’s corner dismantling the crypto industry and suppressing competing payment methods, because the administration apparently thinks that’s what its backers want.
Open Banking and Payments Competition
Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
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