{"id":3161,"date":"2012-02-22T15:45:45","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T21:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3161"},"modified":"2014-03-08T18:20:34","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T00:20:34","slug":"an-excerpt-from-killing-the-competition-how-the-new-monopolies-are-destroying-open-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3161","title":{"rendered":"An Excerpt From \u201cKilling the Competition: How the New Monopolies Are Destroying Open Markets&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Over lunch in San Francisco, Hariharan, dapper in a stylish sport coat, starts by telling me all the reasons he loved his job, especially the opportunity to take part in sprawling, complex projects. Sure, the pace was grinding, the hours crazy. One team, he recounts, worked for 110 hours per week for nine months straight. But \u201ceveryone believed they were making something important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hariharan says his attitude began to sour after Lucasfilm completed a particularly ambitious project. The very next day, he says, shaking his head, executives came in and \u201cfired almost everyone.\u201d These were employees who hadn\u2019t had a day off in months. \u201cPeople were running around the office,\u201d says Hariharan, whose own job was not affected. \u201cThey were running around crying. It was a bad sight.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/2012\/01\/hbc-90008429\">An Excerpt From \u201cKilling the Competition: How the New Monopolies Are Destroying Open Markets\u201d\u2014By Barry C. Lynn (Harper&#8217;s Magazine)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This linked to article is just an excerpt but still a fascinating read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over lunch in San Francisco, Hariharan, dapper in a stylish sport coat, starts by telling me all the reasons he loved his job, especially the opportunity to take part in sprawling, complex projects. Sure, the pace was grinding, the hours &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3161\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1091],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-3161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","tag-monopolistic-practices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12769,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161\/revisions\/12769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}