Big Wednesday #4
Wheeling & dealing, fake golfer, deep sea doo-doo, a better job offer, bizarre TikTok
When I first decided to launch a Wednesday edition of Situation Normal, Christina thought I might be taking on too much.
“Babe, that’s a lot more work,” Christina said. “And it’s not like writing the internet’s 57th most popular humor newsletter is bringing home the turkey bacon. Do you have time for a Wednesday edition?”
“You’re right,” I said. “I’m going to have to cut corners.”
“Cut corners? How?”
“The way crackerjack outfits like Facebook have been cutting corners for years: user-generated content.”
“User-generated content? That sounds like a food additive.”
“It’s an industry term. It means other people make stuff, and I monetize the shit out of their stuff, without cutting them in on deal.”
“But you don’t monetize Situation Normal at all.”
That comment led to a lengthy discussion about modern monetary theory, Keynesian and post-Keynesian economics, Marxism, and a series of straw man attacks on the Austrian school. I was going to summarize that discussion here, but Christina said it was “…
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