Thursday, July 12, 2018

The False Idolatry of Entrepreneur Worship

A very interesting interview appeared in the Washington Post (7/11/2018) with architect Frank Gehry. In it Gehry reveals some information on Trump's business practices.

"I did turn him down for work. Some of my friends accepted projects with him. They said getting paid was horrific. More than one told me he ended up in a room with a bunch of lawyers offering 20 cents on the dollar, “take it or leave it” — a tactic, apparently, that Mr. Trump was known for. I can see that today in how he is dealing with the world around us."

Yet more evidence that Trump is a crook and a sleazeball. It seems that in America a rich asshole how knows how to work the media can get away with just about anything.

This at the same time that were still combing through the Theranos debacle. Theranos, which supposedly was offering some new "revolutionary" blood testing machine turned out to be a fraud. That story is still unfolding but some of the dupes include Henry Kissinger, Betsy DeVos, Rupert Murdoch, and the Waltons of Walmart. Walgreens also got taken in for a time. It seems that the culture of entrepreneur worship has resulted in a widespread fraud and crime.

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