Maximo Taya
thedegencondition.substack.com
Maximo Taya
@thedegencondition.substack.com
Public intellectual of the casino economy. Writing The Degen Condition on risk as late-capitalist operating system. Ginsberg’s Theorem: you can’t win, can’t break even, can’t quit.
The 35 greatest gambling-adjacent films of all time, or 35 films for the discerning degen cinephile:

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a man in a red jacket with the words pay that man his money above him
ALT: a man in a red jacket with the words pay that man his money above him
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October 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Reposted by Maximo Taya
For nearly a decade Citarella has been tracking the trends of Gen Z and their shifting and extreme online politics that have led to extreme actions. If anyone predicted this trend, I would say its him. I published this interview back on October 30, 2022.

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Why Socialists should NOT cede crypto to the Right - The Blockchain Socialist
For this interview I spoke to Joshua Citarella (@JoshuaCitarella on social media), an artist, researcher, and Twitch streamer who studies niche online communities. He authored the book the Politigram ...
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September 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
dear algo, please send me readers/writers who are:

-intellectual gamblers
-gambling intellectuals
-risk philosophers
-doomscrolling optimists
-addiction economists
-degen epistemologists
-California Ideology dropouts
-cinephile market watchers
-post-truth cartographers
September 18, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I bet "No" and lost. On purpose, kinda. Here's why:

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September 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
“The logical outcome of fascism is an aestheticizing of political life…All efforts to aestheticize politics culminate in one point. That one point is war.”

— Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
September 11, 2025 at 6:28 PM
"All that is solid turns into data points." - Engels probably if he was still around

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Free Market Friends with Naomi Oba
YouTube video by The Blockchain Socialist
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September 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Fascinated by the idea of prediction markets, not thrilled by leading prediction market platforms capitulating to crony capitalism

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Trump Jr.-advised prediction markets invite bets on president’s demise
President Trump’s deregulatory agenda emboldened prediction markets to push boundaries around permitted event contracts. Now sites advised by his son are allowing bets on his death.
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September 5, 2025 at 1:38 AM
We are cooked, well done
Gold hits $3,600 for the first time in history 📈🥳🫂
September 3, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Top signal. Grift all you can before the casino closes
U.S. Stock Market hits its most expensive valuation in history, surpassing the Dot Com Bubble and the run-up to the Great Depression 🤯
September 3, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Welcome to The Degen Condition: gentlemanly excursions through the intersections of gambling, culture, politics from within the casino.

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September 3, 2025 at 3:06 AM
You can’t win. You can’t break even. You can’t quit the game. But you can subscribe.

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Maximo Taya | The Degen Condition | Substack
Where cockfights, crypto, and philosophy all prove the same point: you can’t win, you can’t break even, and you can’t quit the game. Click to read Maximo Taya, by The Degen Condition, a Substack publi...
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August 31, 2025 at 10:23 PM