{"id":56541,"date":"2021-01-29T07:42:48","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T12:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56541"},"modified":"2021-01-29T07:42:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T12:42:48","slug":"lessons-from-wall-street-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56541","title":{"rendered":"Lessons From Wall Street: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lessons From Wall Street: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Whoever controls the narrative controls the world. That\u2019s all you\u2019re seeing in efforts to manage information via censorship, algorithm changes, \u201cfact\u201d checking, Russian propaganda panic, etc. Humans are story-driven animals, so if you control the stories you control the humans.<\/p>\n

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Lessons from this whole Wall Street\/Reddit ordeal:<\/p>\n

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  • The stock market is a scam.<\/li>\n
  • There is no \u201cfree market\u201d and there never will be.<\/li>\n
  • Wall Street predators are the most despised people on earth.<\/li>\n
  • The public can do more to fight back than it had previously assumed.<\/li>\n
  • There\u2019s surely a lot more we can do to fight back that we haven\u2019t thought of yet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    You can\u2019t expose how rigged the system really is without pushing against its power structures according to its own rules. When the entire system pushes back and boots you out in front of everyone, more people are made more aware that it is rigged. This can only be a good thing.<\/p>\n

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    Every single hedge fund plutocrat has at some point in their lives thought the words \u201cI can\u2019t believe I\u2019m getting away with this!\u201d<\/p>\n

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    This is another one of those awkward \u201cwe need to shut down the rabble without looking like a totalitarian oligarchy\u201d standoffs.<\/p>\n

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    Myth: The rich compete with each other and ordinary people benefit from it.<\/p>\n

    Reality: The rich collaborate with each other against ordinary people.<\/p>\n

    Example:<\/p>\n