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social inflation

Money devalues everything. When you add more money to an economy the prices of things within the economy tend to rise. So if you have £1 today and it buys you a sandwich, and you then double the amount of…
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catches win matches

Think small. If you follow cricket you'll likely know the phrase 'catches win matches'. In cricket, it is literally true. It's also figuratively true everywhere else. When you think about cricket and famous cricketers you think about the big name…
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don’t believe your own bullshit

Just don't. I used to work somewhere that had this unfortunate predisposition of believing its own bullshit. Everyone bullshits a bit. And marketing is pretty much an entire discipline dedicated to figuring out where the truth/bullshit boundary lies and riding…
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hyperreal virtue capitalism

Say everything, mean nothing (Originally posted in 2023) I thought I might have an aneurysm when I first saw people talking about ‘woke capitalism’ and ‘woke banking’, but I managed to cling on. Long enough at least to write this…
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