<div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>I'm so awestruck by all your introductions, it has taken me a few days to write my own.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm Helaine Olen. I'm the author of Pound Foolish, about how the ideology and culture of personal finance and Wall Street was sold to people as a way they could prosper in our increasingly stratified world.That probably tells you how I ended up on this list, because the same could be said about aspects of the digital economy. My most recent magazine piece was for Pacific Standard, on how the gruesome multi-level marketing industry is expanding with Silicon Valley venture money and appropriating the language of the sharing and digital economies to bolster its own bottom line.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm really looking forward to reading more introductions, and meeting all in November!</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Helaine</div><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small;border-collapse:separate"><div><br></div></span></div>
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