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Cake day: January 8th, 2024

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  • I worked retail in those days, it was crazy. It was common for a few fights to break out. One time I remember pulling out a new skid of Christmas trees and I didn’t even get to the main isle before customers mobbed the skid. My manager was so pissed off at me for not stopping them but how can one person stop dozens of people without any help. Black Friday was gross and BFCM is no better.






  • You’re right but you’re ignoring everything the other person said. Go back 25+ years and there was a mono-pop-culture. You’d go to work after the latest episode of Twin Peaks and just discussed it. Those conversations weren’t preface with “Spoiler warning.” Either you saw it or yo didn’t. It was a cultural touch stone that most people would at the very least know of, but probably was as engaged with as you were.

    Sure, Japanese people weren’t watching the same thing as Americans, or South Afrikans and The Brits weren’t consuming the same things. It was still a lot more homogeneous culture back then. Not saying now is better than then or anything, just that it was very different.










  • The capital comes from the profits from other markets. Which comes from exploiting workers. The original investment didn’t just spontaneously expose itself, people chose to flow money into it. They’ll pay for the next bubble with the profits C-suit executives stole from their workers and the little guy. They will take what should have been yours and bet it away on some fever dream that was doomed to fail from the beginning. All in the hopes that they might make their wealth get more outrageously excessive before this bubble bursts and they try again on the next.