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Just links to stuff I've liked.

Robinhood and "democratising" IPOs

Second post from the Margins Substack that I'm sharing, this time on Robinhood's IPO programme. Robinhood and Democracy PromotionOpening up the IPO clubMargins by Ranjan Roy and Can DurukRanjan Roy [https://www.readmargins.com/p/robinhood-and-ipo-access]> In March 2021, Robinhood announced they (Note 1) would be building a platform to

Pizza arbitrage

Absolutely loved this piece [https://themargins.substack.com/p/doordash-and-pizza-arbitrage] on the absolute fuckery that is the landscape of food delivery apps. Doordash and Pizza ArbitrageThere is such a thing as a free lunchMargins by Ranjan Roy and Can DurukRanjan Roy [https://themargins.substack.com/p/doordash-and-pizza-arbitrage]> Which brings us

The middle class as the new aristocracy

> As long as inequality rules, reason will be absent from our politics; without reason, none of our other issues can be solved. It’s a world-historical problem. Great piece in The Atlantic [https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/the-birth-of-a-new-american-aristocracy/559130/?utm_source=atltw] regarding the 9.9% as

The New York Times publishes ads for communal living in SF.

I can't get over this article on dorms [https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/03/04/technology/dorm-living-grown-ups-san-francisco.html] for middle class adults in San Francisco that the new york times published. Rather than being a scathing indictment on how an area with such high median wages can make its residents

Swiftly Socratic

> SWIFT: No, a player that appears to stay, stay, stay is nothing more than a faker. And as I said before, fakers gonna fake, fake, fake. On the troublesome questions [https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/taylor-swift-a-socratic-dialogue] raised by Shake it Off.

On why making triple-A games is not worth it anymore

The Outline has a great story about outsourcing in game development [https://theoutline.com/post/3087/outsourcing-blockbuster-video-games-made-in-china-horizon-zero-dawn] , starting from the (great) PS4 exclusive Horizon: Zero Dawn. It shows how much of the development of games takes place elsewhere, but the most important quote for me is > The Dutch newspaper NRC