{"id":15588,"date":"2020-10-20T10:42:39","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T10:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icebreakerexecutive.com\/?p=15588"},"modified":"2020-10-20T10:42:39","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T10:42:39","slug":"governments-getting-duped-by-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/?p=15588","title":{"rendered":"Governments getting duped by tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"break-words\"><span dir=\"ltr\">Even EU \/ UK Governments are naively getting duped by tech and tech ponzi schemes, sure to lead to a wholesale loss in government income too, let alone the impact on society, that&#8217;s hardly even started.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Its difficult to stop doing things even if they are utterly stupid?<\/p>\n<p>At the very top level we should measure our decisons against profit and relationships.<\/p>\n<p>Tech mantras growth and domination = escalating race to the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>Now is the time for clear thinking, open dialogue and courage to do the RIGHT thing?<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/sifted.eu\/articles\/european-tech-valuations\/?utm_source=siFTed&#038;utm_campaign=0bdb601dc7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_10_16_08_58&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_term=0_3d44334990-0bdb601dc7-86661221<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even EU \/ UK Governments are naively getting duped by  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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