Substock

I’ve decided that everyone who succeeds on Substack is a stock trader, manipulating the “two” “sides” of an issue to gain arbitrage. Questions that can’t be turned into a trade or a bet aren’t discussed much. With a few notable exceptions, the writers who don’t engage in stock crime don’t last.

This is historically normal. Starting with the Chappe semaphores in 1793, continuing through Morse and teletype and IBM and Compuserve and HTML eras, every data web was primarily a vehicle for stock crime and betting.

The Blanc Brothers turned the world into Monte Carlo.

Their universal rule:

Que rouge ou noir sorte, c’est toujours Blanc qui gagne!

Our “government” is nothing more than a betting parlor where hedge funders Fink and Soros destroy entire nations to gain a few billion, and the little day traders in “congress” gain millions by sidebetting with Fink or Soros. Major universities are hedge funds with hobbies.

If you want a system that serves the needs of humans, you have to start by banning and wiping out all abstract trading and betting.