Friends, Between 1981, when Jack Welch took the helm at GE, and 2001, when he retired, GE’s stock value soared from $14 billion to $400 billion. Welch accomplished this largely by slashing American jobs. I want to focus on Jack Welch today because Welch represents a stunning change that occurred in American capitalism in the 1980s, whose repercussions lead all the way to Donald Trump. If we really want to understand the decline of the common good over the last four or five decades, we need to understand this change — and no one better illustrates it than Welch.

To those who received this piece via email, I apologize for the old message at the top about this being a repeat of an old essay. It’s not! It’s brand new, I just forgot to delete the old header! “It’s a lot to learn to sit with things you can’t change.” Dr. BJ Miller, author of A Beginner’s Guide to the End, and former Executive Director of San Francisco Zen Hospice

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Share In The Tragedy of Macbeth, long-time Hollywood presence Joel Coen — who has 18 prior films to his credit — takes sole creative control of a project for the first time. The result, not unlike the tale of Macbeth itself, is a tragedy of epic proportions. In the interest of full disclosure, my editor has requested that I mention that I was Mr. Coen’s writing partner, producer, and creative collaborator on the aforementioned 18 films.

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