• As I’ve said elsewhere: This only means something, if they won’t just use the recession to buy up tangible assets from the dead capital they had accumulated. Whoever is going to be in the close circle at the top, will probably benefit a lot after all is said and done - unless it does indeed end up backfiring even for them. Things are chaotic now, we will see.

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    This is called “the cost of doing business” to build a technocratic dictatorship. I promise you, none of these people are losing a wink of sleep over this. So far, they are getting everything they want at a breakneck pace.

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    Always remember, the worst thing that can possibly happen to a billionaire via regulation is to become like us again.

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    As Kylo Ren, the late great Kylo Ren–we love Kylo, don’t we folks? Ky-lo. As he said to me, he said it. He said, “Sir,” he said, “MORE,” and we all have to agree, don’t we?

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    Til Larry page and Sergei brin still own alphabet, I was sure they sold it off in my head, and that’s when the enshittification began, I can’t imagine butchering something you actually founded this badly.

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      Google today is exactly what it would have been when they founded it, if they had the capital and knowledge back then that they do today

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    Those are rookie numbers.

    Gotta pump them up until you randomly see a former oligarch malnourished and in dirty scrapped clothes holding a cup saying “change for the poor” as you exit the local random gas station.

    I know, wishful thinking as these sleazebags have safety nets within safety nets, but one can dream.