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I watched Legally Blonde (2001) today and it’s so quaint to see a time when people basically trusted the system. She goes and works at a “prestigious law firm” like this is some kind of victory, but in reality the whole system was a huge circlejerk. I toured a bunch of Chinese factories last week. One was installing 100 new CNC machines, and there was no hype or secrecy around it. They straight up told me it was $20k a machine. These sort of vibes. “I’m gonna tell you what I’m doing, and you can try to compete, but I’ll still crush you.” And I believe them. As cheap as comma is and as much as we love vertical integration, we are going to continue to work with that factory. The big question: are most people in America productive or unproductive? If it’s the former, why can’t we solve this with democracy? Jail for the cronies and rent-seekers, wireheading city for the homeless, and no more medicare or social security. But I fear it’s the latter: 73.9 million people are on social security

I watched Legally Blonde (2001) today and it’s so quaint to see a time when people basically trusted the system. She goes and works at a “prestigious law firm” like this is some kind of victory, but in reality the whole system was a huge circlejerk. I toured a bunch of Chinese factories last week. One was installing 100 new CNC machines, and there was no hype or secrecy around it. They straight up told me it was $20k a machine. These sort of vibes. “I’m gonna tell you what I’m doing, and you can try to compete, but I’ll still crush you.” And I believe them. As cheap as comma is and as much as

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