The most obvious stupid scam ever conceived and they actually managed to hook a bunch of actual corporations

Square Enix, Nickelodeon, Coke, KFC, and more fell for this shit while regular people were laughing about how obvious a con it was.

Really puts into question the capitalist myth of the genius entrepreneur and the idea that these corporate types are rich because they are smart or deserving in some way.

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leads to them huffing their own farts more often then not

Techbros tried to call this “vectorialism” some years ago: the belief that capitalism would be replaced by even more alienated and displaced abstracts of capital.

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oh TIL, guess I should have read A Hacker Manifesto. https://metacpc.org/en/mckenzie-wark/ post-marxist tech thought

dunno if there’s anyone calling themselves a vectoralist though

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dunno if there’s anyone calling themselves a vectoralist though

I know a few in my local area. Granted, I live just around the hill from Silicon Valley so it’s a cursed land.

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