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Luigi Zingales: belief

16 Sept 2015 Conversations with Tyler Luigi Zingales on Italy, Google and Conglomeration, and Donald Trump (Live at Mason)

“At the end of the day, you can’t scale these things up. I think that’s a huge problem.”

— Luigi Zingales

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Luigi Zingales
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belief
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16 Sept 2015
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Conversations with Tyler

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…At least they’re stealing from themselves, right? [laughs] Exactly. At least there is some redistribution internally. At the end of the day, you can’t scale these things up. I think that’s a huge problem. Here’s an article from Quartz. Let me read you the headline. Maybe you saw it from a few months ago. “The most common surnames of new entrepreneurs in Italy are Hu, Chen, and Singh.” If you look at Milan, you have to go through 20 names, and at number 20 is the Italian name Colombo for the most common or most frequent names of entrepreneurs. Is this sustainable culturally, or is this Italy’s future, in essence, to be economically colonized the way parts of Southeast Asia have been by Chinese, Indians, Sikhs, whoever it may be. Maybe Germans.…

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