Author Topic: #latestagecapitalism (Read 411945 times)

jorma · « **Reply #1380 on:** August 15, 2019, 04:06:59 PM »

Quote from: kingv on August 15, 2019, 03:56:00 PM

You forgot that he also is paying for these buildings using loans against his stake in the company that he later repaid with wework “stock”

but they still managed to get goldman sachs and softbank to invest billions, and they aren't exactly distinguished mentally-challenged when it comes to money.. are they just banking on being able to dump this into retail when they go public?
sounds risky af with those numbers, but what do i know

kingv · « **Reply #1381 on:** August 15, 2019, 05:36:00 PM »

A SoftBank owned fund gave Theranos $100 million in December 2017.

They were in default on that loan by summer 2018. And dissolved without paying it back in september.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #1382 on:** August 15, 2019, 05:42:07 PM »

Quote from: jorma on August 15, 2019, 04:06:59 PM

Quote from: kingv on August 15, 2019, 03:56:00 PM
You forgot that he also is paying for these buildings using loans against his stake in the company that he later repaid with wework “stock”

but they still managed to get goldman sachs and softbank to invest billions, and they aren't exactly distinguished mentally-challenged fellowed when it comes to money.. are they just banking on being able to dump this into retail when they go public?
sounds risky af with those numbers, but what do i know

Big banks are dumb and take dumb risks all the time. 2007-2008 wasn't all that long ago, breh.

Nintex · « **Reply #1383 on:** August 15, 2019, 05:49:50 PM »

The big tech bail out of 2021 is going to be fun

Yahoo bailed out for $200 billion as US tax payers cry themselves to sleep

Tripon · « **Reply #1384 on:** August 15, 2019, 08:10:58 PM »

I remember reading an article that WeWork entire business model was leashing office space on the cheap because they would take large chunks of office space and then just sublease it despite it going against some buildings lease terms. The actual building and office owners must have wised up and significantly upped the lease terms.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #1385 on:** August 16, 2019, 09:33:53 AM »

Quote from: Nintex on August 15, 2019, 05:49:50 PM

The big tech bail out of 2021 is going to be fun

Yahoo bailed out for $200 billion as US tax payers cry themselves to sleep

Marissa Mayer leaves the company with a $400M golden parachute.

Tasty · « **Reply #1386 on:** August 16, 2019, 10:51:23 AM »

Quote from: Brehvolution on August 16, 2019, 09:33:53 AM

Quote from: Nintex on August 15, 2019, 05:49:50 PM
The big tech bail out of 2021 is going to be fun

Yahoo bailed out for $200 billion as US tax payers cry themselves to sleep

Marissa Mayer leaves the company with a $400M golden parachute.

That's like... over 100 Tumblrs*! *current price

Tasty · « **Reply #1387 on:** August 16, 2019, 12:48:09 PM »

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/08/disney-fights-streaming-account-sharing-with-help-from-cable-industry/

Disney using the ashes of net neutrality to partner up with Big Telco and stop you from sharing account credentials.

agrajag · « **Reply #1388 on:** August 16, 2019, 01:21:45 PM »

https://twitter.com/AmazonFCHannah/status/1161910397336768512

Nintex · « **Reply #1389 on:** August 16, 2019, 01:26:10 PM »

Quote from: agrajag on August 16, 2019, 01:21:45 PM

https://twitter.com/AmazonFCHannah/status/1161910397336768512

Already posted breh.

But yeah, we've reached new heights of #lagestagecapitalism

I wonder what it looks like this time next year.

agrajag · « **Reply #1390 on:** August 16, 2019, 01:33:09 PM »

I skip over your posts

Nintex · « **Reply #1391 on:** August 17, 2019, 07:12:01 AM »

https://twitter.com/mashable/status/1162390308039999489

team filler · « **Reply #1392 on:** August 18, 2019, 04:49:04 PM »

AZN Rice not Noodles
2 days ago
He's the LeBron James of accountants.

redarrowhead2
2 days ago
He's the batman of accounting

team filler · « **Reply #1393 on:** August 18, 2019, 05:52:36 PM »

Tasty · « **Reply #1394 on:** August 19, 2019, 11:39:45 AM »

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/waves

Quote

Waves (Sunnyvale, CA) is a dating app for sexual fantasies

“It basically works like this: If you're into ropes, you put that in Waves, and all your potential matches are also people who are into ropes.” - Emerson

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #1395 on:** August 19, 2019, 12:48:19 PM »

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/19/newt-gingrich-michael-jackson-moon-1466853

Why fund NASA when you can pay Elon Musk $2 billion to go to space for you.

Don Rumata · « **Reply #1396 on:** August 19, 2019, 02:16:42 PM »

Quote from: Tasty Meat on August 19, 2019, 11:39:45 AM

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/waves

Quote
Waves (Sunnyvale, CA) is a dating app for sexual fantasies

“It basically works like this: If you're into ropes, you put that in Waves, and all your potential matches are also people who are into ropes.” - Emerson

My fetish is Disney+ account sharing.

curly · « **Reply #1397 on:** August 19, 2019, 02:56:07 PM »

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #1398 on:** August 19, 2019, 03:05:37 PM »

Meanwhile, in Japan:

Tasty · « **Reply #1399 on:** August 19, 2019, 03:18:24 PM »

Getting your Hunter License

Tasty · « **Reply #1400 on:** August 19, 2019, 03:18:46 PM »

3. Duelist
4. Joey Wheeler

tiesto · « **Reply #1401 on:** August 19, 2019, 04:10:45 PM »

Love how they gave Joey a thick noo yawker accident for the American dub.

team filler · « **Reply #1402 on:** August 19, 2019, 04:24:59 PM »

https://twitter.com/PopeyesChicken/status/1163510538959069184

Nintex · « **Reply #1403 on:** August 22, 2019, 02:55:28 PM »

https://twitter.com/MollyJongFast/status/1164303712879357952

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #1404 on:** August 22, 2019, 04:49:51 PM »

https://twitter.com/chudlogic/status/1164391177237536768

nachobro · « **Reply #1405 on:** August 22, 2019, 05:09:07 PM »

wtf kind of name is "Thatcher Wine" fucking hell

VomKriege · « **Reply #1406 on:** August 22, 2019, 05:14:00 PM »

Quote from: Esch on August 22, 2019, 04:33:37 PM

https://twitter.com/nick_kapur/status/1164233656799506433

It goes without saying that this game is entirely uninterested in trying to understand what socialism actually is and how it might function

I guess there's some value to what he is doing there and it's obviously a pretty uninspired satire... But it's not like anti-capitalism stories (in games or elsewhere) are all that subtle on average either or that economics, politics, etc... are faithfully reproduced in most games, absent of any criticism.

Edit : Nevermind I finished reading the thread and it got a lot more eye rolling by the end. I mean the original Monopoly might have been watered down but the most commonly known version still has shades of, admittedly light, satire for its setting.

Edit 2 : There's apparently at least one unlicenced Monopoly expansion similar to that (BUY NOW), Hasbro probably took a cue from them. I'd imagine this sort of reskin is a pretty cheap undertaking.

Nintex · « **Reply #1407 on:** August 24, 2019, 12:25:36 PM »

https://twitter.com/CatkinsLap/status/1165039403464560640

OnlyRegret · « **Reply #1408 on:** August 24, 2019, 11:30:01 PM »

amongst the s*ny-Disney™ war I saw some comments I wish I saved because finding them again on Twitter is too much
someone retorted to someone's criticizing Disney™ as far from weak or innocent by unsubtlely suggesting the person was racist/upset due to Disney™ casting being "diverse and full of PoCs"

woke capitalism of corporations is a fucking blight

Tripon · « **Reply #1409 on:** August 25, 2019, 01:55:22 PM »

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1165678234098458624

Tripon · « **Reply #1410 on:** August 25, 2019, 04:14:57 PM »

https://twitter.com/benfoxrubin/status/1165328845509189632

Rman · « **Reply #1411 on:** August 25, 2019, 09:26:54 PM »

The rise of "wealth work". Jobs that exist mostly to serve the upper classes--manicurists, massage therapists, and personal trainers.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/americas-hot-new-job-being-rich-persons-servant/595774/

"In an age of persistently high inequality, work in high-cost metros catering to the whims of the wealthy—grooming them, stretching them, feeding them, driving them—has become one of the fastest-growing industries.

The MIT economist David Autor calls it “wealth work.”

Low-skill, low-pay, and disproportionately done by women, these jobs congregate near dense urban labor markets, multiplying in neighborhoods with soaring disposable income. Between 2010 and 2017, the number of manicurists and pedicurists doubled, while the number of fitness trainers and skincare specialists grew at least twice as fast as the overall labor force."

Nintex · « **Reply #1412 on:** August 26, 2019, 10:06:56 AM »

https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1165775859485163520

Tasty · « **Reply #1413 on:** August 26, 2019, 12:28:54 PM »

Occam · « **Reply #1414 on:** August 26, 2019, 03:06:32 PM »

https://www.instagram.com/obviousplant/p/BhJ80U9h-_h/

team filler · « **Reply #1415 on:** August 26, 2019, 10:20:02 PM »

https://twitter.com/sheckyyoungman/status/1166025980575535104

https://twitter.com/sheckyyoungman/status/1166027809023676416

bluemax · « **Reply #1416 on:** August 27, 2019, 03:31:18 AM »

This reminds me that it has been about a year since I reported my dish washer broken and it still isn't fixed. I think there is black mold in there now.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #1417 on:** August 27, 2019, 09:41:33 AM »

Quote from: bluemax on August 27, 2019, 03:31:18 AM

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This reminds me that it has been about a year since I reported my dish washer broken and it still isn't fixed. I think there is black mold in there now.

Yeah, but how many bodega mixers have you been invited to?

agrajag · « **Reply #1418 on:** August 27, 2019, 03:03:54 PM »

https://nypost.com/2019/08/27/alien-planets-could-be-better-suited-for-life-than-earth-study/

kingv · « **Reply #1419 on:** August 27, 2019, 05:03:14 PM »

Remember how pressed GAF got about the ebodegas?

That was a simpler time, lol

Tripon · « **Reply #1420 on:** August 27, 2019, 10:00:15 PM »

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1166529595874652162

CatsCatsCats · « **Reply #1421 on:** August 27, 2019, 11:33:18 PM »

Just feed the fucking kids, jesus

If I ever won the lottery, that would be my thing, erryone eats

Brehvolution · « **Reply #1422 on:** August 28, 2019, 11:13:35 AM »

In our school district, all kids get free lunch after some parents complained that only the poor kids were getting free lunch.

team filler · « **Reply #1423 on:** August 28, 2019, 03:06:18 PM »

https://twitter.com/tardulv/status/1165685874006331392

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #1424 on:** August 28, 2019, 03:21:07 PM »

what about gay fascists?

team filler · « **Reply #1425 on:** August 28, 2019, 03:22:10 PM »

Quote from: Joe Molotov on August 28, 2019, 03:21:07 PM

what about gay fascists?

leave mayor buttchug out of this!

BisMarckie · « **Reply #1426 on:** August 28, 2019, 03:22:49 PM »

Quote from: Joe Molotov on August 28, 2019, 03:21:07 PM

what about gay fascists?

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #1427 on:** August 29, 2019, 09:39:53 AM »

How many bodega party invites is that worth?

team filler · « **Reply #1428 on:** August 29, 2019, 02:05:19 PM »

https://twitter.com/adage/status/1167085771674849282

Rufus · « **Reply #1429 on:** August 29, 2019, 02:17:01 PM »

https://twitter.com/smithdanielj/status/1167133526086606849

team filler · « **Reply #1430 on:** August 29, 2019, 02:48:37 PM »

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #1431 on:** August 29, 2019, 02:59:48 PM »

worth

Yeti · « **Reply #1432 on:** August 29, 2019, 09:30:41 PM »

Finally my dream of living in a cyberpunk future has come true

curly · « **Reply #1433 on:** August 30, 2019, 03:55:24 PM »

Quote from: Esch on August 30, 2019, 02:00:08 PM

Whatever this is, is gonna be amazing.

https://twitter.com/Dior/status/1167406614749446144

This one didn't really grab me until I saw the name. The French

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #1434 on:** August 30, 2019, 04:08:59 PM »

Quote from: toku on July 31, 2019, 08:41:46 PM

https://twitter.com/lazerwalker/status/1156274732309913601

more #cyberpunk than #latestagecapitalism but still

Someday AI will be able to make me look like how I feel on the inside; Not dark, but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Treacherous as the sea! Stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me, and despair!

VomKriege · « **Reply #1435 on:** August 30, 2019, 04:33:08 PM »

Quote from: curly on August 30, 2019, 03:55:24 PM

Quote from: Esch on August 30, 2019, 02:00:08 PM
Whatever this is, is gonna be amazing.

https://twitter.com/Dior/status/1167406614749446144

This one didn't really grab me until I saw the name. The French

Not to reiterate from the shit thread, but it's more

than

.

VomKriege · « **Reply #1436 on:** August 30, 2019, 04:35:50 PM »

Also deffo not "#latestagecapitalism".

VomKriege · « **Reply #1437 on:** August 30, 2019, 04:41:19 PM »

curly · « **Reply #1438 on:** August 30, 2019, 04:45:48 PM »

Quote from: VomKriege on August 30, 2019, 04:35:50 PM

Also deffo not "#latestagecapitalism".

latestagecapitalism was always regular capitalism reheated, with a side of "inclusivity"

also thinking I read the shit thread

VomKriege · « **Reply #1439 on:** August 30, 2019, 04:59:30 PM »

Quote from: curly on August 30, 2019, 04:45:48 PM

Quote from: VomKriege on August 30, 2019, 04:35:50 PM
Also deffo not "#latestagecapitalism".

latestagecapitalism was always regular capitalism reheated, with a side of "inclusivity"

also thinking I read the shit thread

Not to be stubborn, but the inclusive bit is antithetical to the argument made here against the ad... Is it not ?

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Author Topic: #latestagecapitalism (Read 411945 times)