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Quinn Slobodian
It’s quite literally the only thing he can control.
At the stage in the election cycle that these bday parties, dirtbike backflips and wrestling matches seem almost cute and sad rather than threatening.
Reminded of @quinnslobodian.com's excellent book "Hayek Bastards".
Quinn points out VDARE founder and white supremacist Peter Brimelow argued that economic transaction costs increase in an ethnically diverse society. Sohrab is basically making a psychological version of Brimelow's argument.
With Elon Musk becoming the world's first trillionaire, it's a good time to revisit Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff's deep dive on the Muskism-Fordism comparison.
the index thing is really breaking through - by Burton Malkiel
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/o...
Interesting also how he becomes his own private tax haven by taking all pay in unrealized stock options, hacking the premise of the mid century redistributive state—-no income, no income tax.
“even all this becomes a metaphor for the neoliberal project, a de facto privatisation of a piece of public park by a hugely wealthy foundation.” - @edwinheathcote.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/40bd...
European politicians have sounded the alarm on sovereign AI after US firm Anthropic announced it was halting access to some of its top AI models following a directive from the Trump administration. ca.news.yahoo.com/wake-call-eu...
Often hear people express surprise at the hard nativist turn in politics
Am pretty sure that history will record the fact that the world’s richest man - and his super rich mates - are far right agitators as pretty much *the* reason
Yet so often hear immigration, economics, etc etc etc
Just as Musk hacked corporate governance to retain private-style board control while tapping public markets, geographically he cultivates both the quasi-secessionist enclave of the company town AND access to the federal government.
