Hypothesis: We’re seeing the start of something big this holiday season while nobody was looking.
The culture war is entering its financialized chapter. From now on, “follow the money” principle will apply. You can start to ignore what people say and focus on who they pay.
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That’s always been the case. I think you are hoping for “legibility” of these opaque financial transactions... e.g. via court filings. You will only be partially satisfied I suspect.
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No it’s not always been the case. For years there was no money in culture-warring. That’s why it remained marginal. In the last 2 years it’s poured in. Now mechanisms are adapting. I’m not thinking court filings. Simple routine reporting will reveal a lot.
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Yeah, like exploring an infinitely vast 3D space of ideas through flooding it with capital to spot and nurture all possible local maxima/minima!
Money is the ultimate search algorithm.
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Crypto and particularly niche privacy coins are the technological foreshadow of this.



