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Cake day: June 27th, 2022

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  • First of all, financial times, please find people who can get to the point in the first 16 paragraphs. Relevant bit:

    After Bezos, Amazon’s largest stockholders are BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard. These asset managers are also the largest stockholders in Tesla, after Musk. They are also the largest stockholders in Prologis. And they are likely to be among the largest stockholders in most other companies you might think of. (The equity of AerCap is provided by a slightly different group of asset managers.)

    BlackRock and its competitors are not beneficial owners, of course; they run index funds that invest in everything and also offer active management through pooled funds and on behalf of large institutional investors, such as endowments and pension funds. Some of these institutions are large direct investors in equities; organisations such as Norges Bank Investment Management, which manages the more than trillion-dollar sovereign wealth fund of Norway, and Calpers, which funds the pensions of California’s public employees.

    One of modern capitalism’s greatest achievements has been convincing workers they really own a stake in their own shackles. If you want to survive in your old age, you need a pension fund, which invests in equity. If you want what scraps you saved not to lose their value, you give your money to someone else to put in an index fund.

    “At that point what difference is there between you and Musk or Bezos?” asks some illiterate moron. Well, it’s simple really, even an imbecile writing for FT can get it. As far as a normal person who doesn’t drink children’s blood is concerned, investing in private equity provides lower returns that just playing the stock market after the extract all the hidden fees they want. In some usian states, it’s apparently illegal to disclose the details of an equity’s financials. Furthermore, people who happen to be giving their money to the parasites running this charade through pension funds and whatnot have less say in their running than the homeless guy sitting outside their offices.

    The notion ”I own a small part of the firm that owns a small part of the firm that owns this plant and rents it to the airline therefore I’m a capitalist" is so removed from reality that even liberals shouldn’t be falling for this shit. From the same article:

    400
    The number of times greater that Jeff Bezos’ $200bn wealth is than Andrew Carnegie’s. Over the same period, US national income has risen only by a factor of 50

    That’s a whole lot of rubbish to say “the rich have gotten richer”





  • Cass Eris (cognitive psychologist, succdem/liberal) has a playlist going through the book. She brushes part of outright accepts some anti-communist horseshit, but those should be obvious to you when she does. Other than that, she shows that holding JPB to any reasonable academic standard is a futile endeavour, from sharing information from his patients doing little to protect their identity to making absurd propositions and comparisons all with little to no citations. She also makes it a point to point out all the Freudian and Jungian poppycock Beterson has incorporated into his work.

    It’s a lot of videos averaging 40 mins so you could limit yourself to 1-3 rules and probably still be far more in-depth than your friend. I don’t suggest trying to go through the whole thing quickly, Dr. B’s work is quite frequently a mindfuck to think about with any depth, far too much quackery to take at face value.


  • Absolutely not, for the sole reason that DPR Korea isn’t a real entity in the minds of liberals. It’s the boogeyman, the place with no democracy, subzero freedoms, more arrests and executions than births and so on. They can’t fathom there being a real, physical thing where DPR Korea is on the map, unless it’s desolate wasteland or the DMZ.










  • I’ve seen this “let’s make fun of trump for his age” thing to many times today and cannot emphasise this enough: nobody gave 2 bits of a shit about biden’s age vis-à-vis the number itself. The man was clearly demented by 2019 but time around he can’t maintain a train of thought for 60 seconds even when he has a script. Trump may be less than what he was in 2016 but he’s mentally active enough to rouse his crowd after he was shot at. I’m not even sure we can say that about Kamala.