World after CapitalAlbert Wenger
World after Capital
by Albert Wenger · first published 2021
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on “Ask HN: Favorite nonfiction books of 2018?” ↗…Wordpress, MySQL and NGinX has beat Britannica, AOL, Blogger.com, IE, Oracle and IIS. So why don’t we have more of it in other areas? Drugs? Marketplaces? Albert Wenger from USV has a nice online book called “World after Capital” that speaks about this.
on “DoorDash Changes Tipping Model After Uproar” ↗…fashion, so rather than stay until I found something else to do, I decided to quit and do anything else I wanted to do." * Praiano, Italy on the Amalfi Coast is an awesome place to visit * Recommends World After Capital by Albert Wenger and The Fixer by Bradley Tusk
on “Why I quit my job as an investment banker” ↗This comment is top rated yet misconstrues – in order to advance the author's values – both the argument and the context. Topically, Wenger is a partner at USV (Manhattan) and _The World After Capital_ was published as a Gitbook in order to be open source. It is not intended to describe nor comment, politically, on the day to day of capital flows. Attacking it as such is a straw man argument at best…
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on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?” ↗World After Capital by Albert Wenger (USV) reaches a similar conclusion: https://worldaftercapital.org/
on “Human attention has become a commodity” ↗> We need to figure out how to live in a World After Capital in which the only scarcity is our attention. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about this issue. I believe that at the end of the day attention is the only finite resource. Sure, you can say time, but…
on “The World After Capital” ↗…does not in and of itself demonstrate that there was adequate capital. GDP is not a measure of capital; GDP is the value of goods and services produced. That said, the burden is on the author of "The World After Capital" to demonstrate what is meant by "sufficient capital".
on “The World After Capital” ↗…investments; selling services during a "gold rush" is likely the safest bet and most profitable. Albert, another partner as USV has been evolving his understanding and has been working on a book called World After Capital - http://worldaftercapital.org/ USV as a whole have been evolving a thesis related to decentralization, which I believe they've perhaps mispurposefully attributed to being solved by blockchain; the thesis…
on “Buffett bashes Bitcoin as nonproductive, thriving on mystique” ↗…this and immediately started to wonder this guy's credentials, especially when I got to the parts on UBI and communism and how "governments distort markets". Like how can you write a book called "The World After Capital" with such a thin understanding of capitalism and the very very obvious prior art here, Marxism. Then went back to the preface for the money shot: > As a Venture Capitalist (“VC”)....
on “The World After Capital” ↗> Albert, another partner as USV has been evolving his understanding and has been working on a book called World After Capital It's probably no reflection on the rest of his thesis, but he's wrong about what was scarce in pre-agrarian societies (see 'The Original Affluent Society by Marshall Sahlins). Looks like an intriguing…
on “Buffett bashes Bitcoin as nonproductive, thriving on mystique” ↗The author narrowly defines "capital" as the context of the argument: "... industrialization shifted scarcity from land to capital (which throughout The World After Capital refers to physical capital, such as machines and buildings, unless otherwise noted)." Seems a lot of comments here assumes the broader definition of "capital", just want to point out...
on “The World After Capital (2018)” ↗…without darkening me.” Albert Wenger, a friend of mine who is a venture capitalist, general partner at Union Square Ventures here in NY and who raised their climate fund, wrote an entire book called World After Capital about this very thing, and is giving it away: https://worldaftercapital.org Back then, USV and other VCs were really bullish on Utility Tokens as a way for the participants to own the network, and to…
on “The boiling frog of digital freedom” ↗