"All the real money is in this socially useless, no-value-creating, hypertrophied, metastasized finance sector. Every gain in finance is matched by a loss. It all amounts to - literally - nothing."
A perfect distillation of the social uselessness of finance Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs)
https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/18/self-licking-ice-cream-cone/
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