The Ultra-Rich Know What's Coming

I've got a morbid fascination with Medium. It's proof why the term "thought leadership" was a dead letter the minute it was coined. It's Blogspot through the mirror darkly: a bunch of people who take themselves deadly seriously posting absolutely unhinged nonsense, probably mostly AI generated.

This one's fun, though. An investment advisor gets a peek at the man behind the curtain and does baby's first materialism, seeing but not quite connecting the dots on Mark Zuckerberg's expensive-ass bunker, the current fad for investing in raw materials, power generation, and agricultural land, and the real estate boom, and the fact that infinite growth with finite resources is impossible. It also has some nonsense on how it's mathematically impossible for the world's total debt to be greater than the world's GDP, as though you can't sell an asset multiple times or you can't have more wealth an what you produce in a year. His heart seems (broadly) in the right place - he almost gets to the idea of mutual aid - but it all comes out in a pained shriek.

The really fun part is the writing style. It seems almost but not quite AI written. It's got the standard hallmarks: apocalyptic (i.e., in the original sense that something deeply hidden is being revealed for the first time) and sensationalistic tone, over-use of contrasts (not this thing that nobody would assume in the first place, but this other thing that is already obvious), and emdashes. My hypothesis is that this sort of stuff is being written by actual human beings, but the human beings doing the writing are spending so much time exposing themselves to AI-generated slop that it's polluting their own training data and they're (potentially unconsciously) adapting their style to match.