Sep 11, 2008
Friedman spends much of his book talking about how the world is flat, how Bangalore is the new Silicon Valley, and how India is now in perfect competition in America. Meanwhile, all my friends in Bangalore live with power that’s only on 70% of the time in an overdeveloped and thus desertified city (that formerly was known as a great beauty of the world) doing menial labor for major American companies. And yet Americans all think they’ve living the dream, because that’s what Airmiles Friedman told them.
—me, on The World is Flat

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