Conversation

The business side of the story went from feel-good schmaltz to unbridled dank vulture capitalism at warp speed. It says something that every system that’s critical to a strong response is currently run as an extraction machine and has been for a decade.
1
83
Juxtapose: cute photos of small-lot homemade masks with global bidding wars and near-piracy over medical grade PPE among state and non-state actors.
1
32
Juxtapose: Heart-rending photos of nurses at the edge of their capacity and PE firms behind hospitals making calculated bailout grabs while furloughing non-clinical staff.
1
27
Juxtapose: Individuals buying restaurant gift certificates with someone like Gary Cohn presuming to deliver high minded lectures about oversight of *small-business* loans.
1
23
Everything sweet and life-affirming in the business response is a feel-good ineffectual favela chic hopepunk sideshow theater. Everything substantively driving the main act is grimdark gothic high-tech extractive profiteering by cartoon vulture capitalist ops.
Replying to
Reagan-and-after conservatives may have achieved incremental economic flexibility for some but it came at the cost of hollowing out the robustness built in mid-century. Cooked the seed stock for gourmet meals and tore up the roads to sell the cobblestones to the highest bidder.
1
4
Replying to
Is it a conscious choice to use cool sounding or complicated words and sentences to express a simple thought? Genuinely asking. Want to know if there is a con-man/mark relationship between influencer/influenced here.
1
2