#Monopolies

Vincent Deluard

VincentDeluard

The GME insanity has made me reconsider my view on big tech monopolies and fix common issues in traditional discounted cash flow models1 -Capital structure and cost of capitalBecause big

Helen Pluckrose

HPluckrose

Why is this point hard to grasp? It worries me that this isn't clear to many people. It's a thorny problem where we have to balance the right of companies

Jack Murphy 🇺🇸 ⚔️

jackmurphylive

Just talked to a source at DC MPD:“Atlanta showed us that we can get executed for following our training. Why would we risk that? We aren’t doing shit.”Why would LEO

Kyle🚬

Gravelord_Kyle

I already made fun of the "National Justice Party" but I'll actually address it.I think the mere existence of such a thing is laughable, let alone the enthusiasm it's generating.

pete wolfendale

deontologistics

Best short explanation of the GameStop phenomenon I’ve seen so far.https://twitter.com/mrbrowneyes2020/status/1354517067240771584 I suppose that my main takeaway from this is that r/wallstreetbets has enough collective consciousness to co

kilgore trout, back in some form

KT_So_It_Goes

nobody is happier about trump & friends getting deplatformed than the anti-anti-trump fake intellectual wing of the GOP, who are more than thrilled to have something else to put on

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

Somewhere in town last night there was a huge explosion that rocked my house. This morning, I can’t find anything on it anywhere. Not a news item, not a tweet.It’s

Glenn Greenwald

ggreenwald

"German Chancellor Angela Merkel blasted Twitter’s decision to ban U.S. President Donald Trump.'The right to freedom of opinion is of fundamental importance,' Steffen Seibert, Merkel’s chief spokesman, told reporters in

Belinda Barnet

manjusrii

In many conversations I have about Google/Facebook and the news media bargaining code, one of these points comes up (the exact points Google is pushing):1. This is just for Murdoch2.

Indian History

IndianHistory0

One thing I never understood as a kid was why no one questioned the sheer gall of western nations(who had industrialized using mercantilism & generous use of protectionist policy/monopolies via

ロコちゃん - hereticalupdate.substack.com

RokoMijicUK

This reads like a parody of Apple computers but apparently it's legitimate. The new Macs send a hash of every program you try to run to Apple servers and if

Natalie Buske Thomas

buske_natalie

2k isn't socialism, it's Restitution, and it's not enough for what they've stolen from us through tyranny, fraud, embezzlement, and far worse- lost lives through war for profit, corruption, negligence,

Has Jeff Bezos Decided To End World Hunger?

HasBezosDecided

PART 8: IMPERIALISM: THE HIGHEST STAGE OF CAPITALISMThis thread is summarizing a book of the same name by Vladimir Lenin. I would recommend reading it. It's 162 pages so not

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

You've probably heard Zuboff's excellent coinage "Surveillance Capitalism" and perhaps you've read the paper it was introduced in, or the book that it led to. Today, I've published a response

Genève Campbell

bergerbell

We’re on the precipice of a massive paradigm shift in the US: the end of universal access to five-day-a-week, in-person education as a public good for which the state has

Spike Cohen

RealSpikeCohen

The reason for the protests and riots that are happening right now, is for reasons that are way more similar to why the BLM protests and riots happened than either

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