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Successful Tool Lending Libraries Force Us to Rethink What the Public Is Willing to Share — Yves Smith

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Coincidentally, I am in the process of setting up a tool library as well as research library for a community to encourage sharing. Sharing is a cultural thing. It used to be common in the US, but American culture has since become much more individualistic of late. We need to jettison the culture based on "it's every man for himself," and get back to 'We're all in this together."Naked CapitalismSuccessful Tool Lending Libraries Force Us to Rethink What the Public Is Willing to ShareYves Smith

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 Coincidentally, I am in the process of setting up a tool library as well as research library for a community to encourage sharing. 

Sharing is a cultural thing. It used to be common in the US, but American culture has since become much more individualistic of late. We need to jettison the culture based on "it's every man for himself," and get back to 'We're all in this together."

Naked Capitalism
Successful Tool Lending Libraries Force Us to Rethink What the Public Is Willing to Share
Yves Smith
Mike Norman
Mike Norman is an economist and veteran trader whose career has spanned over 30 years on Wall Street. He is a former member and trader on the CME, NYMEX, COMEX and NYFE and he managed money for one of the largest hedge funds and ran a prop trading desk for Credit Suisse.

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