A cartoon by Jonathan Rosen. #NewYorkerCartoons

Good Overview of the base function of the finance industry in creating value, compared to the much larger portion which is largely just extracting value from society these days.
youtu.be/fIsQHkTLlxY

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Remember the film "Don't Look Up", with the profit and publicity focused president and the technocrat business man? Well at least this asteroid only has a 2.4% of causing regional destruction.

www.space.com/asteroid-202...

Musk's package would be $100billion dilution for market cap of $1.4 trillion. >7% That's kind of ridiculous.
fortune.com/2025/01/28/e...

Donald Trump has declared the U.S. is in a “national-energy emergency.” “The actual emergency, obviously, is with the climate,” @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.
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Curious how the American consuming way of life will adjust to cable ties, party deco, throw-away tools, packing tape, basically most things in the dollar store getting more expensive. So many disposable things, perhaps there is hope for reduction after all.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

I just spit out my tea.