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Musk is really an engineer, and I mean a social engineer. Going back to the early days of business, the owner of the company would try and sell people products and services directl…

It is. If you are competitive you don't need to be around people who try to one-up you to feel bad when they do in fact manage to one-up you. You will go and reaserch info on how o…

> Dopamine If it's just that, in such case there are AntiParkinson drugs which would solve the problem, also coffee

You can't. On and off ramps for fiat are necessary and government would just go after the bank or blacklist the SWIFT code of the bank which is providing services to exchanges.

Crypto VC understand that how people feel about something is just important as its utility. People have a deeply rooted fear of inflation, they are afraid of being diluted in their…

There is a monumental mismatching between the way in which Tesla occupies the airwaves and the number of people who actually own them or would be able to draw a Model S if asked po…

This will serve them well. Ever since the GFC big tech has not produced anything which actually improved the quality of life of the avg. citizen. And the last huge leap was Windows…

the Internet is now being used by 4 billions people, so it basically mimics humanity Back in the 80s and 90s you were cherry picking the elite and the intellectuals, the internet o…

> I think there are registers in people's minds that are simply occupied. I think this is the case, anecdotally I noticed that if you are a sports fan, then the "us versus them" rh…

It has to be Bezos not a small time account. It has to be him and has to be unapologetic, like Trump was. People like to make fun of Trump but he delivered a masterpiece. He got to…

Ivy League is the last intellectual bastion of the country. If you break up Ivy League all you are left with is Silicon Valley cult of personality snake-oil salesmen and pump & dum…

This strategy would have worked before MMT took over, now politicians don't need to bring about jobs, they can just print money and pass deficits of epic proportions and substitute…

> People will always spend money for things they need, they will also spend money for things they want, our current system is forcing them to spend it for the sake of spending it c…

You can't criticize something that is availible to you for free. It's like stealing a car and complaining that has black interiors vs. white pearl

Microsoft lets you pirate their OS for free, you ungrateful punk. Enjoy dropping 3000$ for an equivalent Apple system. I'm sure you'll find the marketing from Cupertino to be more …

> Once you're big enough to be a target, you have to spend money on lobbying, and contribute to campaigns. Absolutely not. You do the opposite of that. You go at layer zero. At the…

Okay, let's do the reverse. If you are somebody who wants to win an election, whose vote are you winning by proposing and/or signing a bitcoin ban? It's not like Bitcoin has a CEO …

1) Elections in America are always close, every race, every candidate is not safe. That's the nature of the 2 party system, hence every vote counts 2) You are getting your data fro…

What if those who produce, use and mantain those tanks, ships, planes and rifles suddenly lose trust in the mean of compensation which the government offers them in exchange of the…

Nobody, not even Biden has the political goodwill to make Bitcoin illegal and enrage so many constituents (aka lost votes) The only ones who maybe can do it are Xi and Putin, and t…

Everything old is new again. This is nothing revolutionary: The Hollywood Stock Exchange was a similar project

> science _overwhelmingly_ supports vaccination Not to be pedantic about it, but science always, and in any event supports non vaccination for self and everybody else vaccinating i…

There is no money to be made in the form of profits or FCF from renewables. Not only that, there is no money to be made in energy which isn't fossil in general. This includes Carbo…

The Reverse-Spinoff is from what I understand when the amount of activities and assets which normally gets spinned off gets to claim the original name and denomination of the compa…