{"id":3032,"date":"2019-10-07T08:39:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T08:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/?p=3032"},"modified":"2019-12-10T16:50:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T16:50:23","slug":"four-ways-to-focus-entrepreneurs-on-the-common-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/four-ways-to-focus-entrepreneurs-on-the-common-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Ways To Focus Entrepreneurs On The Common Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable-paragraph\">Due to the upsurge of underage vaping, the&nbsp;<a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/9d65a6995e544ee7bdf7fd2c157c69a2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/9d65a6995e544ee7bdf7fd2c157c69a2\">federal government<\/a>, several states and cities are moving aggressively against Juul and other companies in the e-cigarette industry, and the company has removed its CEO. (A recent spate of&nbsp;<a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/a-timeline-of-recent-juul-and-vaping-health-controversies-death-update\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/a-timeline-of-recent-juul-and-vaping-health-controversies-death-update\/\">deaths<\/a>&nbsp;associated with vaping has greatly raised the stakes.) Due to the opioid addiction crisis, Purdue Pharma and its founding family the Sacklers face&nbsp;<a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/purdue-pharma-reaches-tentative-settlement-in-federal-lawsuit-and-some-state-litigation\/2019\/09\/11\/ce6cb942-d4b8-11e9-9343-40db57cf6abd_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/purdue-pharma-reaches-tentative-settlement-in-federal-lawsuit-and-some-state-litigation\/2019\/09\/11\/ce6cb942-d4b8-11e9-9343-40db57cf6abd_story.html\">massive lawsuits<\/a>&nbsp;and possible criminal prosecution, and the company has declared bankruptcy. Meanwhile, on both sides of the Atlantic, government agencies as well as scholars,&nbsp;<a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2019\/06\/how-politicians-and-scholars-turned-against-big-tech\/591052\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2019\/06\/how-politicians-and-scholars-turned-against-big-tech\/591052\/\">politicians and even some former tech executives<\/a>&nbsp;are going after Facebook and Google for allegedly misusing private data, undermining democracy, spreading extremism and engaging in monopolistic practices.&nbsp;Some politicians are calling for their breakup.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/dereklidow\/2019\/10\/07\/four-ways-to-focus-entrepreneurs-on-the-common-good\/#23df69bb631d\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Due to the upsurge of underage vaping, the&nbsp;federal government, several states and cities are moving aggressively against Juul and other companies in the e-cigarette industry, and the company has removed its CEO. (A recent spate of&nbsp;deaths&nbsp;associated with vaping has greatly raised the stakes.) Due to the opioid addiction crisis, Purdue Pharma and its founding family&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}