Random thoughts from Mads Kristensen - Danish journalist, new media consultant and sort of entrepreneur
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Ugh, am I a disaster capitalist?

I’ve been reading Naomi Klein’s thoughtprovocing book “The Schock Doctrine” (more on that in a later post), and today I made a startling discovery.

Back when I was president of the local chapter of Junior Chamber International, I got a lot of positive and negative feedback for driving a hard line with members, who didn’t contribute anything to the common good. When some decided to put me up for President of The Year, part of the feedback from the judges were that “…sometimes the forest has to burn down in order for something new to grow”. I was quite proud of this.

What striked me today is that this is exactly the argument that Naomi places with the disaster capitalists.
Does that make me a disaster capitalist in spe?

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