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  • Maybe Paramount-Warner Should Leave L.A.

    Maybe Paramount-Warner Should Leave L.A.

    Ellison isn’t overpaying $110 billion for dirt. He’s stealth buying the most undervalued industry in America while everyone else stares at the COVID wreckage and mistakes it for the whole picture. Meanwhile, the writers and actors warning you about consolidation do not live in the world. If they did, they would understand that nobody spends…

  • They Killed Normal and Called It Progress

    What we stopped making is the middle, the common culture you could just walk into without curating your identity first. We optimized it out of existence and called it progress. ….Have you noticed that the middle is gone from everything? Restaurants, companies, careers, music, retail, the economy itself. What replaced it is a barbell: one…

  • Three Cynical Perspectives on the American Economy

    Three Cynical Perspectives on the American Economy

    “Will Emerson talks about the impending financial turmoil”: “the only reason they get to continue living like kings is we have our fingers on the scale in their favor” “The Number Go Up Rule: Why America Refuses to Fix Anything” – “The “number go up” rule is not a story of greed or economics, it’s…

  • Three Links about Hollywood

    Three Links about Hollywood

    Hollywood has changed dramatically, in obvious ways to those old enough to remember the old system. Stars used to be marketed as gods, their words uniquely valuable, their images curated completely. Now it’s different. The internet makes controlling an image impossible, competition from social media, news, and unlimited streaming means only a handful of stars…