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(1) Adrian Daub: "Uber claims to have 'revolutionised' the experience of hailing a cab, but really that experience has largely stayed the same. What it managed to get rid of were steady jobs, unions and anyone other than Uber making money on the whole enterprise."

(2) I, like Drew Margary, rarely read anything on the internet in full.

(3) Paul Vallely: "Philanthropy is always an expression of power. Giving often depends on the personal whims of super-rich individuals. Sometimes these coincide with the priorities of society, but at other times they contradict or undermine them."

(4) Adrian Daub: "One of the greatest works of collective satire of the internet age are the 6,069 and counting Amazon reviews for the Hutzler 571 banana slicer."

(5) Paul Vallely: In the ten-year period to 2017, British millionaires gave £1.04bn to the arts, and just £222m to alleviating poverty.