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Michelle Chihara
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Los Angeles since 2003. Media Studies, Critical Finance; power ballads; history of this wild city Find me at michellechihara.com
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Right. But is there a certain point at which the gestalt shifts and he suddenly appears as ludicrous and weak? Like when hating on Taylor Swift, he suddenly seemed like a little girl, himself, and misogynistically, they don’t like that?

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Does it matter? Or do people lean into their own ability to make sense of the word salad? Real question.

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Crazy how Gavekal research, quoted on Adam Tooze's newsletter, is sounding kinda socialist. Gavekal does research "mainly for the use of institutional investors." end/

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...Or have we now evolved into Warren Buffett’s dystopian 'sharecropper society' where the consumption of capital is passed off as growth? This is what John Kenneth Galbraith famously described as the 'bezzle.'" ... 2/

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But, for the most part, they’re just engaging in shit like regulatory arbitrage. A ton of Silicon Valley investment boils down to “identify a regulated industry. Introduce an unregulated, direct competitor. Profit now, pay some fines later.” That’s not arcane knowledge. It isn’t even a new idea!

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It made me feel better about life to go through and like all of the reposts of this.

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(Yup. I have an old school blog going again)

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Michelle Chihara
@thisblue.bsky.social
Los Angeles since 2003. Media Studies, Critical Finance; power ballads; history of this wild city Find me at michellechihara.com
555 followers691 following68 posts