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Review: Disrupted By Daniel Lyons, As Read By An Accountant

I ended up not having a tremendous amount of sympathy for Lyons. I encountered many of the problems he did as I had a bad culture fit in the waning days of my career and annoyed mysterious powers that be with my on-line presence. I don’t think I whined about it nearly as much, but that’s not what I found really interesting about Disrupted. It was the accounting stuff in there that really grabbed me. Balance sheets and income statements, the stuff of life.

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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.