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by dgxyz 130 days ago
I think no one cares about the truth or building something good any more. It's a meme economy. Tell a story and the numbers go up. Until they don't.

Yes my pension is probably going down the same sinkhole with your IRA. Good luck. We need it.

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It's worse than a meme economy, it's a gambling economy. The entire VC business model is gambling (fund 10 hope 1 pays for the losers). Crypto is all gambling. The stock market is gambling. TV ads are all gambling ads. Even dating is gambling.

Now programming and art are both gambling.

Its always been like this but for awhile you had people like Steve Jobs to hold people like Bill Gates accountable. He long referred to MSFT as being mcdonalds in relation to the stuff they produced - very pedestrian.
Yep, all that accountability gates has faced in his life.

Is he facing charges yet for sneaking drugs into his wife's food, or did he only ever discuss that with his buddy Jeff E and never actually follow through with it