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enron :: discover the power of WHY (2001)

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Re: enron :: discover the power of WHY (2001)

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for one, zombo.com has never caused rolling blackouts by knocking power stations offline during peak demands to juice prices. ah the beauties of deregulation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%E2%80%9301_California_ele...

Enron was cooking the books and collapsed because it was a criminal fraud. The power outages and whatnot were the fault of California regulators, every energy company did the same thing because it's what the poorly written laws said they could do. And regulation arbitrage was one of Enron's few legal profitable endeavors.

Deregulation which Enron lobbied heavily into place on the expectation that they could turn a massive profit from exploiting it. Blaming CA gov has some real "stop hitting yourself" energy to it, and while it's important for every government to protect themselves by being more skeptical of deregulation going forward, it's also crystal clear that Enron was highly culpable in the disaster they created for profit.

Of course, it turns out that the same people who were chasing the old capitalist dream of "create the problem, sell the cure" were also cooking their books. Shocking.

Re: enron :: discover the power of WHY (2001)

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The “Who We Are” page highlights the difficulty of defining exactly what they do, but whatever it is, surely it will include the word “innovative”. Brilliant. Today’s Enron would talk a lot about blockchain on this page. “It’s difficult to even start describing how EnronCoin makes virtual and physical commodity markets better because the opportunities are so vast and numerous…” Web design wise, the double colon in th…

When I first heard of "E Corp" in Mr. Robot the first thing that came to my mind was Enron LOL

Re: enron :: discover the power of WHY (2001)

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I remember watching those "why" commercials and thinking "wtf?". What are they selling? Can't help but think the dysfunction of Enron was ultimately reflected in the nature of their ad campaigns. Today, I see YouTube ads from Enbridge, another monster energy company out of Calgary. Exactly the same sort of weird, disconnected nonsense: roosters (for some reason) and childish music.

Were their ads national or just local? I really don't remember them.

Re: enron :: discover the power of WHY (2001)

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This site was made back when companies unironically used meaningless marketing speak and no one seemed to notice they were completely full of shit. People defaulted to believing that these companies were just transcendent. “What they do is just beyond my feeble understanding.”

A lot of companies still do this, but more people can see through it now.

Re: enron :: discover the power of WHY (2001)

#57

This site was made back when companies unironically used meaningless marketing speak and no one seemed to notice they were completely full of shit. People defaulted to believing that these companies were just transcendent. “What they do is just beyond my feeble understanding.” A lot of companies still do this, but more people can see through it now.

Consider: Dilbert is popular since the beginning of the '90s. People knew corporate bullshit for what it was, then and now.

Re: enron :: discover the power of WHY (2001)

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The “Who We Are” page highlights the difficulty of defining exactly what they do, but whatever it is, surely it will include the word “innovative”. Brilliant. Today’s Enron would talk a lot about blockchain on this page. “It’s difficult to even start describing how EnronCoin makes virtual and physical commodity markets better because the opportunities are so vast and numerous…” Web design wise, the double colon in th…

When I first heard of "E Corp" in Mr. Robot the first thing that came to my mind was Enron LOL

That was my take too, just the idea if Enron was still around and kept growing. They would have taken over Bitcoin mining and renamed it E-coin. Enron would have been the Blackrock of today.

Re: enron :: discover the power of WHY (2001)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You might have fun poking around their mail archive: http://www.enron-mail.com/email/maggi-m/inbox/Enron_Dynegy_M... > In addition, all information, documents and communications related to the merger between Enron and Dynegy should be coordinated through and approved by Mark Muller, Lance Schuler, Robert Eickenroht, Mark Haedicke, Rob Walls or Greg Whalley of Enron. It is absolutely critical that this procedure be ma…

The (small) list of removed items is hilarious: http://www.enron-mail.com/email/removed The other comments explaining that this is a restoration project make me wonder where this script came from. The archive of the original website? There are more directories: http://www.enron-mail.com/email/

Probably a good idea to hide 22 freak emails from a 22 year ol(d scandal.)
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