The Whole Purpose

https://www.the-reframe.com/the-whole-purpose/

A number of these creepy perverts got rich on tech or crypto or whatever, and they think their wealth makes them geniuses instead of just wealthy, and the ones who didn’t get rich through tech or crypto or whatever seem to think the wealth of the others conveys genius upon themselves, so now they go around talking about themselves as Alpha Chad masters of the universe, and speak of other human beings like they're fodder for their whims, and generally do their very best to sound like eugenicist mad scientists in Victorian novels.

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VC firm is in the business-crushing business, a practice whereby it gains controlling ownership in something already sustainable, and then enacts a sort of mob bust out on it, extracting all the value from it, cutting the jobs, selling or cutting the things that make it sustainable, driving up the short-term market gains, and then shutting it down for tax breaks. It adds only what it needs to to get the control, then takes everything, then leaves nothing behind. Getting the value is the whole point of the business.