They could, but they won’t.

The major way they broke capitalism was by not going public. Gabe has to answer to nobody, so the usual gang of corporate fucking idiots can’t force him to do short sighted shit to make a short term squeeze at the cost of long term viability.

This is the key. It’s the WHOLE thing. A runaway cap table destroys companies, always. Investors have different exit horizons and they are fundamentally incompatible with long term viability.

All you need to do to compete with a publicly owned company is capitalism is wait for their investors to get too greedy.

Exactly the opposite.

Instead of winning one district by a lot and losing 2, you redraw the map to win all three by a little.

The result isn’t more safe districts, it’s less.

I think he misunderstands the role of the secret service, especially for an ex president. Especially for a recent one.

Don’t copy that floppy!

If you run under the presimise that anything Plato ever thought was strictly the opposite of true, then it follows.

It’s a relatively common and flawed structure. People just usually say Hitler or Stalin or Obama or whatever.

Alphabet shares record? That’s nice, I wonder if its 45 or 78RPM.

The degree to which share price discovery is fundamentally rooted in optimistic speculation, as opposed to any actual evidence… at some point talking about “value” becomes a little weird. “Overvalued by 15%” reads like a chemist doing a titration.

People were more interested in selling than buying yesterday.

Opposition is the easiest fucking job in the world