Without a doubt. They can't reasonably increase revenue so they need to pad* the books with layoffs. Those will result in the platform rotting out (further) from the inside. That's the long short position. Long volatility while the price bounces around like a coked up jack russel terrier.
Long short, long volatility until it flatlines. Basically free money. Their product is users and their data. If they upset the ecosystem users leave and decrease valuations... leads to layoffs and cost saving measures. Rinse and repeat until sufficiently dead.
This is what happens when you blur the lines between news and 'storytelling.'
News is boring, unbiased, dry facts. Media wants to make you watch it. Media needs you to need it. Keep em scared. Keep them fragmented. Keep them stupid.
Small rant:
Americans aren't a single solitary mass of people... no more than any other group. Most of us are just on the train we were born on with about 0 say in where those tracks (and consequently momentum) is taking us.
Vote? You get to pick between two awful choices which need to moderate just enough to get some of the other guys votes. Both suck equally. Third party has 0 chance of winning. Neither matters because they are paid for by mega corp x and the religion of line-goes-up.
It pains me to say it but our best chance is in the next 10-15 years where most of these ancient fucking do nothing's in congress are relegated to nursing homes and obituaries. But that only helps a bit. During that time we need a proper failure of the banking and existing bubble markets to bring about a crash that will more or less make the great depression look like a joke. Change comes with unification. Unification comes when suffering outweighs bais.
We're not there yet.
20-30 years before we get the next 'experiment'
The wounds will be fresh enough to drive change and the damage will be sufficient enough to reinforce any positive movements.
...But for now we're just stuck on the tracks created by a generation that is bigger than us, watching their bubble economy implode, and being saddled with the debt that it bears. This is the death of an era and we're just along for the ride.
Reality is and always should have been cops do cop things. Locally. Traffic shit should be department of transportation. etc. etc.
Make local cops walk local beats and only focus on the community safety and suddenly things get better. 'Us vs Them' is a pretty easy thing to spin when they only are a corrective force with a chip on their shoulder.
Proper training, education, and being held accountable for your actions will filter out the bad blood quickly enough.
Defund is frankly a word that was selected poorly. It implies punishment. It only amplifies the 'Us vs Them' narrative on both 'sides.'
ACAB? No. Problem with corruption and a system that spits out at best tight lipped accomplices and at worst zealots brandishing 'might makes right' ideals? Yep.
We are globally in a housing bubble.
7 stocks determine the direction of our market.
Our banks are balls deep in a collapsing carry trade.
Valuations are factoring in years of growth with zero hiccups ... while not factoring in declining numbers and increased rates.
... I could go on. Nothing got better since 2008. It's gotten worse.
the joke
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