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mircea_popescu: you can never grow the pie. but if you can be made to believe you'll grow the pie, then all bets are off, and the whole house collapses into rubble.
mircea_popescu: it happens to be proper. see, "wealth impaired" hints at the (mistaken) notion that you know, there's something out there, maybe you find it. whereas the system REQUIRES for there NOT to be such a thing.
mircea_popescu: gimme, you know, an independent value and i shall henceforth move the earth from orbit on its leverage.
mircea_popescu: (hey, is my inclination to reuse qualify me as a noob lisp-er ?)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform or in other words, to paraphrase, "the sticking point here, i suspect, is that you believe for whatever reason there's "value" in things. which is at best naive, at socialism bourgeois etc."
mircea_popescu: the eldest didn't inherit naught but the tears of the non-elders, and their butthurt.
mircea_popescu: (think of blair's own personal history - "england is great except for 2nd borns" "maybe you get lucky" "what if i don't ?" "let's make an empire, then". and after a century "empire work is too hard")
mircea_popescu: runts ever so often make the world a better place, that if they all unite the internet can't possibly be long away.
mircea_popescu: what is the "left sympathy" of the "West" other than the disilusioned of 3rd borns at their own disenfranchisement ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not before the "romantic period" at any rate.
mircea_popescu: and also on it goes, "everyone may read and write - so go gitbub"
mircea_popescu: very similar to "made everyone a little noble, but absent the usual incentives to reproduce - made everyone choose between thinking and having kids"
mircea_popescu: one of the many atrocities perpetuated by the "derp revolution" is the creation of young men with artistic taste but without a family fortune to inherit.
mircea_popescu: imposed fucking topic by political power, apparently "women are a thing" in their twisted nonsensical view. what's he to do ?
mircea_popescu: and also, all the "censored" "artists" have no excuse. why the fuck did da vinci EVEN PAINT women, at all ?
mircea_popescu: the only important, redeeming feature of art is that, like woman, will survive everything. in all times and places, its tits must poke out.
mircea_popescu: and in my eyes the one to blame in this failure is !stalin.
mircea_popescu: note that the pope that da vinci had to daily argue with was a very stalinesque figure in his own right.
mircea_popescu: but a) russian speaker who b) was actually a master of this trade and c) actually willing and able to stand on his own did not mostly happen to exist.
mircea_popescu: the task would have been to restate the old conversation in proper terms, for a very sweet life.
mircea_popescu: my own private suspicion is that stalin was very deeply conservative, and just didn't get lucky (for the most part) to find someone COMPETENT.
mircea_popescu: (the sticking point here, i suspect, is that you believe for whatever reason there's "value" in art. which is at best naive, at socialism bourgeois etc.)
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, in that same vein : there's no neo-nazi alive today or since the war invented, that would be fit to be stalin's boot sole in neonazism.
mircea_popescu: well let's not exaggerate, but, i'd say "there's no way to draw a definition of patron that excludes stalin and still makes any sort of sense".
mircea_popescu: phf how was stalin (or ceausescu, for whom i have documentary evidence) not a patron ?
mircea_popescu: (i have never seen a toilet in the arab world, be it poor as fuck rural or not, that didn't have a water jet for your ass.)
mircea_popescu: (this neatly puts the "all art is activism" thingee in its proper terms, too.)
mircea_popescu: the behaviour of the stupid in all fields being by definition about the stupid, not contaminated by the fields.
mircea_popescu: in which sense dadaism is merely behaviour. ie, of the stupid.
mircea_popescu: no more wealthy people, no more art as a possibility, is the proposition.
mircea_popescu: " was precisely funny as long as a wealthy patron was laughing"
mircea_popescu: the nigger words are magic words which you shouldn't say unless you're prepared to not be invited for dinner.
mircea_popescu: too bad they couldn't afford fiddy cents to find out that "no, don't do that"
mircea_popescu: good that they paid vin cerf or whoever for a sports endorsement
mircea_popescu: but there's something structural at work to do with the meaning of money.
mircea_popescu: i confess however that the WHY is nebulous to me at this time, and the how come not much better.
mircea_popescu: the bitch is, this particular space has so far offered and in general promises to offer in the indefinite future tools to feed the little biches their own crows.
mircea_popescu: so yes asciilifeform i would say your understanding is broadly correct
mircea_popescu: "Government sponsored enterprises enter the business, in due course bad behavior is made mandatory, and the evil financial network is bigger than the honest financial network, with the result that even though everyone knows what is happening, people continue to use the paper issued by the evil financial network, because of network effects - the big, main issuers, are the issuers you use if you want to do business."
mircea_popescu: (obviously the actual thing won'd do any sort of useful verification, but for academic arguments' sake)
mircea_popescu: what's leftover out of these deals to actually do thinks is very much reminiscent of what's left of a drone's salary to buy smokes.
mircea_popescu: contrary to how the book might read, it's not watson or wilson or w/e his name is that's begging.
mircea_popescu: this is not a deal in which k is valuing x at y. it is a deal in which X!!! is valuing k at y.
mircea_popescu: "In the deal, Hooli would invest $200 million for equity while in return the two companies would enter into a business development agreement on the side in which Pied Piper guarantees to spend that money in a massive consumer campaign on Hooli’s ad platform."
mircea_popescu: would you stop already ? have you read the vc article ? what "half of that".
mircea_popescu: only indie schmucks deliver things. actually listed companies, be they s.nsa or 21co don't lower themselves to that!
mircea_popescu: i'd pay money for that if i had kids in the 9-15 range.