Author: George Packer

Quotes

The hollowing out of the heartland was good for Walmart's bottom line: its slogan might have been an amoral maxim attributed to Lenin - 'The worse, the better.'

The hollowing out of the heartland was good for Walmart's bottom line: its slogan might have been an amoral maxim attributed to Lenin - 'The worse, the better.'

- George Packer

It's essential for the U.S. and Europe to prevent Putin from going farther and reversing the hard-won independence of former Soviet republics.

It's essential for the U.S. and Europe to prevent Putin from going farther and reversing the hard-won independence of former Soviet republics.

- George Packer

With work increasingly invisible, it's much harder to grasp the human effects, the social contours, of the Internet economy.

With work increasingly invisible, it's much harder to grasp the human effects, the social contours, of the Internet economy.

- George Packer

Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and religion.

Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and religion.

- George Packer

The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.

The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.

- George Packer

The phrase 'change the world' is tossed around Silicon Valley conversations and business plans as freely as talk of 'early-stage investing' and 'beta tests.'

The phrase 'change the world' is tossed around Silicon Valley conversations and business plans as freely as talk of 'early-stage investing' and 'beta tests.'

- George Packer

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