The Misfit Economy. Lessons in creativity from pirates, hackers, gangsters and other informal entrepeneurs. Alexa Clay and Kyra Maya Phillips.
The Misfit Economy. Lessons in creativity from pirates, hackers, gangsters and other informal entrepreneurs. Alexa Clay and Kyra Maya Phillips. 2015. ISBN 9781451688825. The two authors take a differentiated approach to change and reach into a grab bag of “misfits” who are commonly not held up to respect or as models of behavior. This look is deeper than most as it brings out the “why’ of behaviors such as nations like the US engaged in wide spread intellectual piracy in their early development, as China does now. The book has gained a fair amount of social buzz as it contains controversial albeit commonplace information. Good quote. Youth (eg ghetto, barrios, colleges etc) require love, belonging and opportunity. If they can not find it one way, they will find it in another. I appreciated the dilemma of “do gooders” when faced with lofty goals or personal survival , too often the locals have to choose survival. Like Eastern Europe’s booming coal mining industry = jobs, where there have been few. Read this book for its humanity and pragmatism
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