Please don’t insult sex workers by comparing them with billionaires.
If I pay a stripper she’ll give me a lap dance. The terms of the deal are straightforward. If I give a billionaire money they’ll just fuck me over and ask for more money.
The NSC responding there was no threat is absurd. The threat is the presence of a non-approved person in the thread. The fact it turned out he was a reporter who didn’t want to interfere with anything is just luck.
I know this violates “norms” but honestly it seems like small potatoes. Like, maybe being a former holder of public office shouldn’t grant you access to secure information. Why does GW Bush, or Bill Clinton, or Biden, or Obama, or Harris need a security clearance as private citizens?
It’s all about financialization. Money people don’t care about product fundamentals anymore, they care about line go up.
Craft beer looked like a perfect investment because it was already a premium product with social caché (that incidentally was also addictive). But as the above comment notes, there isn’t an endless appetite for overpriced beer, especially when the market is flooded with shitty imitations from mass market beer companies.
The way to disincentivize it would be to let interest rates skyrocket (financialization only works if the cost of borrowing is effectively zero) but that would hurt regular people first and worst.
We could also vote in a socialist government who was willing to do things like seize corporate-owned housing and piss on the corpse of companies like Blackrock as their portfolios lose a significant percentage of their value but that seems remarkably unlikely.
Yeah, he has the ability to articulate what I was already thinking about LLMs and bring in hard data to back up his thesis that it’s all bullshit. Dangerous and expensive bullshit, but bullshit nonetheless.
It’s really sad that his willingness to say the tech industry is full of shit is such an unusual attribute in the tech journalism world.
Please don’t insult sex workers by comparing them with billionaires.
If I pay a stripper she’ll give me a lap dance. The terms of the deal are straightforward. If I give a billionaire money they’ll just fuck me over and ask for more money.