The Paradox of Progress - Jason K Jackson

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4 © 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved. A quick agenda: •  Free market economies 1942 •  Chinese history •  Things that make things fail •  Banana sales •  Heads that talk •  Tribal signaling •  Not dying

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5 © 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved. “Gale of creative destruction” a "process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one." Free Market’s messy way of delivering progress

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17 © 2015 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Walmart - the retailer who dominated the world •  If Walmart were a country, it’s GDP would be 28th in the world, ahead of Austria and just behind Norway •  11k stores in 27 countries. •  2.2 million employees – roughly the same as the Chinese army. •  Sells a billion pounds of bananas a year •  Biggest business is teen sportswear, Halloween candy and yarn. •  Earned 485 billion in revenue, outpaced number 2, Exxon, by 103 billion.

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