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Democracy is already dead. As in who spends more or buys more Ads wins elections. For decades now. Trump and the Brexit vote broke the traditional media-advertising complex but tha…

Compare the revenues of the MIL complex to the rest of the options available on the Fortune 500. People dont realize how big the gap has grown between what nation states can afford…

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But the good Greeks did us a great service by shpwing us they couldnt afford those cars without taking loans from German banks. And by not being able to repay those loans, proved w…

Scary. Its really fascinating how they have such capacity to spread into every nook they can find. We spent a lot of time wondering how such an exotic looking thing, showed up in b…

The purpose of a system is not optimization. Or as Stafford Beer would say - The purpose of a system is what it does.

I dont know what metal that was but there was a grey coat of paint on it. Sometimes they coat the metal to prevent rusting or whatever, but the rusting happens under the coating an…

Not really. Read Pareto's Circulation of the Elites. The mistake is assuming all those who have some amout of power all have the same agenda. Such a state is never possible purely …

Reminds me. I saw a bizarre fungus growing on an old Airport audio speaker left in storage. The speaker was a 5 foot high metallic tower. And this 4 inch high alien looking thing w…

Just give it a few more quarters. Phone and mac sales arent growing like they once used too. The pressure shall mount. And corporate execs are extremely predictable in how they han…

Target EU govt and mil complex jobs. They have older stacks, favor experience and have more funds these days thanks to the war. Plus much less stress than in private sector.

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Is this what Zgmunt Bauman called the transition from Solid Modernity to Liquid Modernity? With rents going up and switching jobs more frequently than past generations it becomes h…

Not only that, the rate of change is increasing or speeding up. Brains are not really capable of handling constant change. There is much more to learn. There are more unknowns. And…

Their lifestyles are safe since they have convinced everyone organizing against them is what nutjobs and communists do.

Both sides evolve tactics in reaction to each other just like the parasite and host evolve side by side. So what you see tomorrow wont look like what happened yesterday.

Well today the Supply side (of content) has outstripped Demand for content by a huge factor. Demand for content from people with disposable income and interested in creative output…

Its not some accident Google ended up with all this data. There is a reason they give you Free stuff like video, email, chat, search etc. People have forgotten the only way (in the…

Its a J P Morgan report. They are just nudging Buffet to spend that cash pile on something instead of sitting on it.

Michael Goldharber - People have limited attention to give anything, but unlimited capacity to receive attention. The Attention Economy has been inflated exploiting the above inequ…

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This stuff their assistants do for them. To understand how they use signalling be aware of The Theory of the Leisure Class.