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started reading @cstross latest (bit sad when the UK being taken over by evil god king is light escapism from modern life....)
the bit at the start about conspiracy theories and having to convince civil servants that some of them are actually true is a bit on the nose......
(at least Stross got the book out _before_ reality started doing a number on his work 
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@cstross the fact they are stupid enough to fall for it is the thing I'm finding infuriating (& I've had enough personal experience of investors, them thinking they are brilliant all the while knowing nothing and constant group think to be pretty bitter about this) - like - this, OBVIOUS, grift - works
the worship of the rich, as though they are somehow more insightful than the rest of us, while watching them exposed as dubious people & marks falling for cheap tricks is depressing.