Notes from the End of Time with Kenaz Filan

Notes from the End of Time with Kenaz Filan

The Business of Business

An alternative to business as usual

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Kenaz Filan
Nov 22, 2023
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Hooverville, New York City, 1931

Calvin Coolidge famously said “the business of America is business.” Or, more precisely, that’s how he was quoted. What he actually said in his January 17, 1925 speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors was:

After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with pr…

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