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mircea_popescu: the people buying them still are invested in the stock market.
mircea_popescu: if it's invested in... i dunno, nubile 19 yo slavegirls which you sell for meat
mircea_popescu: i doubt anyone whosoever has positive net worth in the us if the stock market goes to its natural level and the bonds turn to the dust they are.
mircea_popescu: exactly the things they ridiculously do not wish to do.
mircea_popescu: dumbestthing a kid with college debt could possibly do today is put a downpayment on anything based on his salary / some loan.
mircea_popescu: basically, california is dead for tech wage earners coming decade.
mircea_popescu: i figured, "hey, whoever was competing in that market won meanwhile ; doing away with the entire thing"
mircea_popescu: decimation once i saw those "prosecutions" re wage fixing
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller not at all. look at greenspun'ssad story with arsdigita
mircea_popescu: look at dooglus's mishandling of justdice, no need to go further.
mircea_popescu: generally, they're too stupid to even realise this is an option
mircea_popescu: irl idiots get forced out of ownership once their company reaches success. in bitcoin, they have to relinquish willingly.
mircea_popescu: decimation re making money, there was this lulzy failure of one of romania's cardboard tycoons. he tried to open a franchised 7/11 thing.
mircea_popescu: they don't by and large even remotely consider doing it. but it sounds cool
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller the thing with what people "Want to" do is that it's generally just a credible excuse
mircea_popescu: then people wonder why everyone, from china to russia, thumbs their noses at the us poverty.
mircea_popescu: two decades during which NOTHING paid anywhere remotely like 8%. not bonds, not stocks.
mircea_popescu: the inflation is immense. back in the 80s, a 2k monthy salary made one comfortable
mircea_popescu: pornography without political clout is like power tools without electricity.
mircea_popescu: yes, but also don't have the sort of power that had traci lords fuck dogs.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, the old school from deepthroat to brazzers is this kinda fun thing.
mircea_popescu: except their crew and screenwriters suck so bad, the old school as depicted by them is a scary abomination
mircea_popescu: i did but i didn't care so much for it. kinda plastic-y imo.
mircea_popescu: and even before that, "elected" derps killed any respect one could have had for leadership
mircea_popescu: before that, amateur/gonzo porn killed any respectone would have gotten as a porn star.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo words exist for inept marketeers to try and sell them right ?
mircea_popescu: "meet a collection of idiots from the intrernet who will think they're on a first name basis with you in spite of not actually having a bank account, and will be late to meetings at places where they can't afford to eat".
mircea_popescu: obviously, i'm not alone. but no, to the parallel universe puppies everyone's like... you know, them.
mircea_popescu: someone does that about say me, everyone instantly knows he never had the good luck to be in the same room with me.
mircea_popescu: she was if i recall some gofer/"product manager" for google is all.
mircea_popescu: nothing quite like a humiliated pm live by someone holding a gun.
mircea_popescu: <cazalla> speaking of our PM, whoever is in the chocolate shop says they have devices planted around the city, demanding to speak to PM on live radio ha << pretty cool.
mircea_popescu: yeah, minus the part where "the collective" is made out of stupid lazy people.
mircea_popescu: so if it's wish season : i would like a giant man-eating dragonfly to ride on.
mircea_popescu: "incentivized". in point of fact they can dld it off you and seed themselves.
mircea_popescu: so basically it is now impossible to use torrents because too many people seed ?
mircea_popescu: im more interested in the form, they're still usign the same hearts-pattern crinkly paper ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo im not even discussing the content, which is banal.
mircea_popescu: cazalla: dwolla is a name that seemed to jump the shark for web 2.0 names <<< just about when "cutesy" died.
mircea_popescu: from the new york times to the guardian to basically facebook pages.
mircea_popescu: it is very altcoin-scammy in its development i gotta grant you that.
mircea_popescu: i mean, guardian was lulzy enough with its pretense to relevancy. but pando for crissakes ?
mircea_popescu: no such thing exists. tor is and was a usg hole long before pando sort-of read it in trilema. etc.