Liszt
Smash Rookie
- Joined
- Jun 21, 2015
- Messages
- 2
I couldn't land a job. I promise, I had to have at least burned down a forest or two sending out resumes into the void to jobs both big and small. Nothing was safe from receiving one of my pitches as I was desperate, desperate to land a job anywhere. Everything from things within my strike zone to things outside my strike zone. When does one stop feeding the job employment void with hundreds upon hundreds of resumes? I had been a full scholarship student with published research in the field of biotechnology and bioinformatics. I was familiar with all the latest fads like western blots, rtPCR, and gene knockout and was familiar with using Excel to fancy up a linear regression line. Perhaps the most important thing that no one told me in the four years of school was that I was still dumb as **** when it came to the real world.
I was working as a courier for my dad's office in New York City delivering what was in all likelihood another contract for one of his clientele when I was swept up by what I could only describe at the time was a giant flash mob. It took me two weeks before I realized that what I saw was the beginning of the Occupy Wall Street movement. In which I became an unwilling participant as my attempts to avoid going against the giant swaths of people pouring down to Zuccotti Park only led me to join the giant swath of people pouring into Zuccotti Park. Yeah this is an old story. The one that you expect to post anonymously, die with 0 page views, and feel content with the feeling of just getting it off your chest. What's the reason for posting it? Well, nothing has changed. Has it?
Matt Damon did a great job pointing out that assets like mortgage backed securities, collaterized debt obligations, and synthetic CDOs all existing within an unregulated and unmonitored system would eventually spell disaster (maybe some of The Inside Job is getting mixed up with The Big Short. I may have gotten bored at times rewatching it and watched the other one instead). In the second half of the documentary, it becomes apparent that many of the people who worked for the security exchange commission (SEC), the federal exchange, and in universities as professors who published papers on the economic outlook of the United States had received gratuitous amounts of "research stipend" by big banks and other forces that would prefer the "research stipend" to be spent on hookers and blow rather than the stipend being spent on feeding into actual research that had been staring at us right in the face this entire time. Someone just needed to release it as a PDF so we would read it.
So what does Matt Damon, the struggling actor end up doing? He ends up becoming an advocate for Crypto.com an unregulated, unmonitored, crypto exchange currency website that has more than 250 cryptocurrencies and even allows you to buy NFTs. Monaco has spent millions on advertising to the point where every other Google ad was an ad for their Visa credit card which was released before Visa even approved it, bought out their own slice of hell in California, and bought out their entire name for an undisclosed amount. But we do know what it cost for Matt Blaze, the person who stated they would never cave in to pressure from crypto currencies and intended for the website to be a cryptography website back in 1993. Is it unfair to imply that Bitcoin is unsustainable? Sorry, I meant crypto. Is it unfair to also imply that Luna is a representation of the entire ecosystem? Sorry again, I meant the financial crypto sphere. Or perhaps is my perception of crypto tainted by the fact that my first exposure to it back in early 2010s was a guy who was poorly attempting to explain the blockchain while also telling me about his regiment of microdosing LSD and how the Jews are to blame because they control the entire international modern banking system. I'm honestly not quite sure. When you have native biases, you don't know how deep they run until someone stages an intervention and lets you know that you're hardstuck Diamond elo and you're never going to reach Masters no matter how many 12 hour grind sessions you put in.
In Matt Damon's defense, we're no so different he & I. Well, I may be a better person but he is definitely a better actor. When graced with the angry, disenfranchised, and livid people fighting for a cause in Zuccotti Park, I believe there is only one conclusion that you can come to when you see someone ranting in a public space with no hope of seeing a viable gain. The first is that any mob will get violent after enough time has passed because the change they want to see will not materialize in the time they are congregated which makes them very, very, very mad. The second is after a police force is mobilized and forces them to dispersed because they are ruining the natural concrete jungle asphalt ecosystem and pigeon dumping ground that they will eventually go home, lose all their humanity, and become the very thing that they hate. No, I'm not stating that they will transform into The Big Banks in some Transformers type of configuration. But when morality is down, vices take over. The issue with the financial meltdown isn't really due to MBS or CDOs. Once you got rid of CDOs, banks just started releasing CLOs. Yes, I'm not kidding. The issue is greed and the fact that unrelenting, unquenchable, and undeniable greed has become a pandemic that has eroded more American livelihood than COVID-19.
The biggest question with virulence is always the vector of transmission. How does someone greedy actually take money from others? I naively thought that we would meaninglessly and continually exploit each other through our jobs. The mechanic over charging for repairs, the computer specialist over charging for repairs, the grocery worker over charging for repairs. But no, it turns out that crypto would in fact offer a medium for your average Joe to set up his or her thirtieth ****coin to pull yet another pump and dump on swaths of people looking for a get rich quick solution. The solution in theses situations when people have nothing but a laptop and no place to call home tends to always be that technology is the salvation and not the placating device used to calm down the masses from realizing the fact that they in reality own nothing.
I was working as a courier for my dad's office in New York City delivering what was in all likelihood another contract for one of his clientele when I was swept up by what I could only describe at the time was a giant flash mob. It took me two weeks before I realized that what I saw was the beginning of the Occupy Wall Street movement. In which I became an unwilling participant as my attempts to avoid going against the giant swaths of people pouring down to Zuccotti Park only led me to join the giant swath of people pouring into Zuccotti Park. Yeah this is an old story. The one that you expect to post anonymously, die with 0 page views, and feel content with the feeling of just getting it off your chest. What's the reason for posting it? Well, nothing has changed. Has it?
--- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
The Inside Job was a 2010 film regarding the financial crisis and how banks were overleveraged on mortgage backed securities because they cared more about outperforming the multi millionaires in the bank next to them rather than calling out the entire ecosystem that was becoming rapidly unsustainable. The FBI in the early 2000s had in fact noticed an increase in mortgage fraud that was occurring rapidly throughout the United States and informed Congress who did not look any further. And starting in 2007 an interesting phenomenon occurred in which delinquency rates on single family residential mortgages flexed all over credit card loan defaults. Housing was unsustainable, strippers were getting their fifth home, and your average joes were playing out their slumlord fantasies of being Jared Kushner by defrauding tenants in derelict homes (immigrants who didn't speak English were especially targeted in these situations). Immigrants would soon later become a target yet again in a national presidential campaign designed to win over the hearts of Americans into believing that their financial impoverishment is correlated to them stealing all the good jobs. You know. Like investment banking and ****.
Matt Damon did a great job pointing out that assets like mortgage backed securities, collaterized debt obligations, and synthetic CDOs all existing within an unregulated and unmonitored system would eventually spell disaster (maybe some of The Inside Job is getting mixed up with The Big Short. I may have gotten bored at times rewatching it and watched the other one instead). In the second half of the documentary, it becomes apparent that many of the people who worked for the security exchange commission (SEC), the federal exchange, and in universities as professors who published papers on the economic outlook of the United States had received gratuitous amounts of "research stipend" by big banks and other forces that would prefer the "research stipend" to be spent on hookers and blow rather than the stipend being spent on feeding into actual research that had been staring at us right in the face this entire time. Someone just needed to release it as a PDF so we would read it.
So what does Matt Damon, the struggling actor end up doing? He ends up becoming an advocate for Crypto.com an unregulated, unmonitored, crypto exchange currency website that has more than 250 cryptocurrencies and even allows you to buy NFTs. Monaco has spent millions on advertising to the point where every other Google ad was an ad for their Visa credit card which was released before Visa even approved it, bought out their own slice of hell in California, and bought out their entire name for an undisclosed amount. But we do know what it cost for Matt Blaze, the person who stated they would never cave in to pressure from crypto currencies and intended for the website to be a cryptography website back in 1993. Is it unfair to imply that Bitcoin is unsustainable? Sorry, I meant crypto. Is it unfair to also imply that Luna is a representation of the entire ecosystem? Sorry again, I meant the financial crypto sphere. Or perhaps is my perception of crypto tainted by the fact that my first exposure to it back in early 2010s was a guy who was poorly attempting to explain the blockchain while also telling me about his regiment of microdosing LSD and how the Jews are to blame because they control the entire international modern banking system. I'm honestly not quite sure. When you have native biases, you don't know how deep they run until someone stages an intervention and lets you know that you're hardstuck Diamond elo and you're never going to reach Masters no matter how many 12 hour grind sessions you put in.
In Matt Damon's defense, we're no so different he & I. Well, I may be a better person but he is definitely a better actor. When graced with the angry, disenfranchised, and livid people fighting for a cause in Zuccotti Park, I believe there is only one conclusion that you can come to when you see someone ranting in a public space with no hope of seeing a viable gain. The first is that any mob will get violent after enough time has passed because the change they want to see will not materialize in the time they are congregated which makes them very, very, very mad. The second is after a police force is mobilized and forces them to dispersed because they are ruining the natural concrete jungle asphalt ecosystem and pigeon dumping ground that they will eventually go home, lose all their humanity, and become the very thing that they hate. No, I'm not stating that they will transform into The Big Banks in some Transformers type of configuration. But when morality is down, vices take over. The issue with the financial meltdown isn't really due to MBS or CDOs. Once you got rid of CDOs, banks just started releasing CLOs. Yes, I'm not kidding. The issue is greed and the fact that unrelenting, unquenchable, and undeniable greed has become a pandemic that has eroded more American livelihood than COVID-19.
The biggest question with virulence is always the vector of transmission. How does someone greedy actually take money from others? I naively thought that we would meaninglessly and continually exploit each other through our jobs. The mechanic over charging for repairs, the computer specialist over charging for repairs, the grocery worker over charging for repairs. But no, it turns out that crypto would in fact offer a medium for your average Joe to set up his or her thirtieth ****coin to pull yet another pump and dump on swaths of people looking for a get rich quick solution. The solution in theses situations when people have nothing but a laptop and no place to call home tends to always be that technology is the salvation and not the placating device used to calm down the masses from realizing the fact that they in reality own nothing.
--- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
Tbc when I feel like it lol.
Tbc when I feel like it lol.
Last edited:
