none of this is true and the place where this is going is potentially very awful
Anyhoo, this is nothing new anyone in investing doesn’t already know.
Just, I’m trained in a field where collecting real data on _real_ things is ostensibly valued.
Seeing so much $$$ + effort infused in a made-up-concept-of-a-thing, requires some real cognitive dissonance to behold.
/fin
Something becoming disabled has taught me is how instinctual that response is, to say “something bad happened to this person, they must have fucked up, here’s all the reasons I’m immune.” It’s self-protective and enormously destructive. It’s one of those things you need to teach yourself to check.