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Who Profits While the Bombs Fall? — A War Seen Through 'Welcome to the Dragon Restaurant'
A film set during the Iraq War lays bare war's two faces: ordinary people with no water or power, while a few dine on expensive Chinese food. The detail that chilled me most — children sent as human bombs.
00:08 Children sent as human bombs — the principal's lie
01:25 The film: a Chinese chef runs a restaurant in wartime Iraq
02:08 War boosts business — the few who profit from disaster
03:03 The owner is also the water minister — and sells banned alcohol
03:52 The author disliked the opening — but it plants a seed
04:44 Ordinary people with families — even the crying soldier
05:45 War wealth builders live it up on others' pain
06:41 The US started the war for oil and the dollar
07:35 Today's cheerleaders are profiteers or the deceived
08:36 In peace, know what to live for — no one escapes war
We thought AI was just a helper — but it's quietly erasing a whole class of jobs: the people who make the slides, write the memos, carry the messages. Starting from why the PowerPoint was even invented, this episode looks at how AI-native collaboration rewires the organization, and where humans still matter.
00:07 The truth about PowerPoint
01:04 First principles
02:06 The middle layer vanishes
03:06 Middleman jobs collapse
04:01 The Agent as vendor
04:54 Will the boss be replaced too?
05:49 What's left for humans
06:50 What the new org looks like
07:39 How the new workflow runs
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