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The Superiority Of Piracy
The real sharing economy is piracy and all the money is in suppressing it
The Boeing 737 MAX and The Crash Of Capitalism
The doors are coming off
The Mausoleum Of The Mall
Wandering around late capitalism in St. Louis
The Barista Beggar Class
Tips for labor and the whole thing for capital
How Influencers Seize The Means Of Production
Why sell for others when you can sell for yourself
The Actual Sharing Economy
Why private ownership is no substitute for belonging
The Worst Case Scenario For AI Is Already Here
Corporations are AI and they’ve been fucking up the world for centuries
The Lie At The Heart Of Consumer Society
We know that consumer goods degrade, but the place they come from supposedly doesn’t
The Substack Shitshow
More proof that writing is immune to Venture Capital
How Google Search Is Falling Behind
Google is now noticeably worse than AI for many questions
Facebook's Pivot To VR Has Failed
Stick a fork in the Metaverse, it's done
The Blue Check Carnival On Twitter
How Twitter today is like a Renaissance Carnival
The Existential Terror Of Amazon Prime
How next-day delivery is the new opiate of the masses
How Big Business Makes Everything LESS Efficient
Obscene profits are the greatest market inefficiency
Elon Musk Is A Masturbator More Than An Innovator
Most of what he’s selling is self-gratification
Tesla’s Netflix Problem
Competition incoming
I Tried The Metaverse, and It’s None Of Facebook’s Business
VR is cool, but useless for Facebook
Capitalism Is A Golem Run Amok
We made artificial beings out of corporations and they suck
How I Finally Understood Crypto (Thru Animal Farm)
Crypto is just the idea that 'hey, if those fuckers can make up money, so can we.'
What Life Is Like Without Amazon
It's fine.
Corporations Are People And They're Killing Us
Companies have legal personhood, limited liability, and it’s not going well
Basecamp's Problem Isn't Politics. It's Philosophy
Basecamp's implosion—losing one-third of staff—is about much more than politics. It's a failure of philosophy.
Bill Gates Is A Vaccine Racist And It's Getting People Killed
A convicted monopolist is a vaccine monopolist. Who could have predicted this 🤔
Why Substack Sucks
Imagine if Facebook paid Ben Shapiro. That’s Substack Pro
GameStop And Why We Should Take Over The Stock Market
Seize the means of financial production. You have nothing to lose but your trades
Why #StopHateForProfit Is An Existential Threat To Facebook
Because Facebook ads don’t work
Remote Work Means Anyone Can Take Your Job
Now thousands of people could be competing for your role from around the world.
No Country Can Restart Alone
No economy is an island. Not even islands
Tech Companies Are Non-Essential Services
All the startups go in a box to the left
The Travel Bubble Opening In Asia
Green channels are opening-up
Marc Andreessen Invents Government
What the VC gets so wrong
How Ride-Hailing Is a Cancer
Growing unchecked, it devours resources and ultimately kills
How Uber Discovered That 80% of Its Ads Were Useless
And why online advertising may not work at all
Free Market = Open Borders
A truly free market would double world GDP
This Is the Worst Time for Startups
New businesses have declined 44% since the 1970s.
Green Energy Is Now As Cheap As Fossil Fuels
Fossil Fuels are the energy of the past
Yahoo Will Pay You $100 If You Had One of Their Shitty Accounts
It’s settlement time.
How Instagram Could Have Beat Facebook
They could have been a contender
Why Studying Successful Founders Is Pointless
Might as well ask a pachinko ball how it won
Population Control for Climate Change
If you really wanted to do it, here’s how
Socialize The Stock Market
The public should hold shares and workers should sit on boards
How Google Tricked Us Into Clicking Ads
Google just ran a psychology experiment on all of us, and it worked
Netflix’s Secret Weapon: The World
Over 50% of Netflix’s business is now international
How Fundraising Costs Founders Money
And how it can doom your company
Microsoft’s Carbon Plan Is Hot Air
They still use tech to extract fossil fuels
Cheat To Win: How To Really Think Like A Billionaire
Avoid work, avoid taxes, and cover it all up
How The 737 MAX Went Down
Boeing’s cost-cutting finally led to disaster
How The Dreamliner Became A Production Nightmare
How the 787 Led to the 737 MAX
Boeing’s Culture Crash
Boeing’s culture crashed before the planes did
What If Steve Jobs Made A TV?
His death killed a timeline where TVs didn’t suck