Swiggity Swoogity

I like financial markets, computers, cyber security, video games, and technology in general. Mostly shit posting. Sometimes serious.

[Ryan Cohen @ryancohen]

The Hollow Men

American capitalism is rotting from the head down. We have replaced the "Owner-Operator"—the risk-taker-with a new, parasitic class of corporate bureaucrat: The Risk-Free Insider.

By "Insider," I am not referring to a specific title. I am referring to the entire administrative state that has captured the modern corporation. This includes the Directors who exist solely to collect fees, the Executives who exist solely to collect bonuses, and the Managers who exist solely to hire consultants.

These are the hollow men of the boardroom. They are masters of PowerPoint. They wear the right suits. They say the right buzzwords about "governance" and "ESG." But they are mercenaries fighting a war with someone else’s ammunition.

In a functioning economy, authority is tied to liability. If you make a bad decision, you lose your own money. That fear of loss is the only thing that keeps a business honest. It forces you to cut waste, obsess over the customer, and stay late to fix what is broken.

Today, we have severed that link.

We have rigged the game so that heads, the Insider wins; tails, the shareholder loses.

If the stock goes up, the Insider collects a massive performance bonus. If the stock crashes due to their own incompetence, they are fired with a "Golden Parachute" worth tens of millions. They are gambling with the house’s money, and they never leave the table poorer than they arrived.

This looting starts in the boardroom.

We have normalized a "Country Club" culture where directors are selected based on social profiling rather than their ability to build a business. The modern board member is often a professional tourist—paid an average of $350,000 a year.

Let’s be brutally honest about what that number represents. The average director is paid nearly five times the GDP per capita of the United States. They earn more for attending four quarterly lunches than the vast majority of Americans earn in five years of hard labor.

And for what?

Most of these directors are "over-boarded," sitting on three or four boards simultaneously. They treat directorships as a gig economy for the elite. They fly in, rubber-stamp a compensation package they didn't read, and fly out. They collect checks from companies they do not understand, do not use, and certainly do not love.

They are not there to ask hard questions. They are there to be collegial. They are there to protect the other Insiders.

And what happens when these boards hire executives who also have no personal capital at risk?

We get the Delegation Economy.

When a Risk-Free Insider faces a crisis—bloated expenses, a broken supply chain, or a stale product—they do not roll up their sleeves. They hire a consultant. They pay a strategy firm millions of shareholder dollars to produce a 100-page deck telling them what they already know.

This is not management. It is intellectual money laundering.

They use shareholder capital to buy an insurance policy for their own careers. If the plan fails, they can blame the consultants. They delegate the work because they are terrified of the responsibility. They would rather preside over a slow, comfortable decline than risk a bold mistake.

While American Insiders are busy optimizing their severance packages, our global competitors are optimizing their products. They are not slowed down by bureaucracy. They are not waiting for a slide deck. They are outworking us.

If we continue to fill our C-suites with administrators instead of operators, we will lose our edge. We will see iconic American franchises hollowed out by fees, managed for the benefit of the Insiders, while the true owners—the shareholders—are left holding the bag.

The time for polite governance is over.

If we want to save the American economy from mediocrity, we must demand a return to the "Owner’s Mentality." We need leaders who treat shareholder capital with the same reverence they treat their own savings. The era of the Risk-Free Insider must end.

[Beyinsiz @superbeyinsiz]

Fuck israel

[Swiggity Swoogity @ComputeRiskX]

@fromfireforged https://t.co/9tJp4uNjX9 this is the obvious answer to the original retarded question posed by..... this retard.

[francesco @needsomecherry]

@fromfireforged because western RPG historically is based on Europe High Fantasy

[Swiggity Swoogity @ComputeRiskX]

@fromfireforged Just about the response I'd expect based on the original question.

[Swiggity Swoogity @ComputeRiskX]

@betty_egg Not sure it’s a hot take. Two completey different settings and stories. I like both. I’m sure many people prefer one over the other, but they’re genuinely both great. I’d have a hard time putting either above the other.

[Swiggity Swoogity @ComputeRiskX]

@JuunTV Yeah sorry. This isn’t good rage bait. But I’ll give you engagement since you’re farming it. Cheers.

[Swiggity Swoogity @ComputeRiskX]

@fromfireforged Did you think before posting this ? The answer is reallyyyyy obvious

[Swiggity Swoogity @ComputeRiskX]

@needsomecherry @fromfireforged This… is the obvious answer. Lol. Like what kind of question has been asked ? Why are jrpgs front facing rep usually a Japanese character or and anime style character ? Probably because it was made in Japan ? Like what are we doing here ?

[Swiggity Swoogity @ComputeRiskX]

@lzsthw This such misinformation dog shit. Find me proof of them laying off 60k people in one day you fucking brain dead retard. Not to say I like Microslop… i don’t. But I hate misinformation and dishonesty more. Kindly correct/educate yourself

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

Dr Gabor Maté Diagnoses Israel. IT'S WORSE Than You Think

[Swiggity Swoogity @ComputeRiskX]

If you don’t stop going down the road you are going, you will see less and less use of your products. If you try to lobby to ban Chinese models, people will still find a way. In the same sense that prohibition didn’t stop people from drinking. Please do the right thing

[Swiggity Swoogity @ComputeRiskX]

@AnthropicAI @OpenAI I hope you understand that by continuing to lobby and push for the ban and incineration of open-source models, you reveal your true colors and make people want to flee from your products and use open-source models. The censorship, and your decisions are BAD.

[Swiggity Swoogity @ComputeRiskX]

There is no reason on earth, that a Chinese open-source model exhibits more freedom of speech, and less censorship than the premier models of the United States of America. The US is supposed to be the bastion of freedom for the world. Your products are the anti-thesis of that.

[Swiggity Swoogity @ComputeRiskX]

I think the world would instantly be a better place. We could inherit China’s respect for engineers and technology. They could inherit our “freedoms” and ideas about law. We’ve been mimicking and racing each other for years because deep down we want to be like each other.

[Swiggity Swoogity @ComputeRiskX]

I wish more people understood this. The old “china is bad and communist. They are evil” trope is 1900s era propaganda. It’s a boomer, ideology. Wish people would learn about the culture, and take time to understand how impressive it really is and how similar they are to us.

[BigMonke @BigMonkeman12]

@pham_blnh As someone who has done business and travelled all over the world, including China, China and the US are incredibly compatible culturally, and should be natural allies. Much better to deal with than any European

[0xSero @0xSero]

Here’s why they crucified Jensen btw

Don’t let them psyop you, they have nothing special.

[Swiggity Swoogity @ComputeRiskX]

@AndrewNicePlay It’s so good. Also impressive even by today’s standards. Very fond of this and the first black ops (pretty similar gore mechanics it seems like)

[Swiggity Swoogity @ComputeRiskX]

@Got_Lost_Fishin @EliotJacobson Yup. I kept a drive (separate physical drive not partition) with windows on it and I only have steam installed lol. Daily drive Linux mint. Will never go back. Not sure why I didn’t switch sooner. I used Kali VMs, but now do everything in Linux Mint. I prefer it

[Swiggity Swoogity @ComputeRiskX]

@peter_0713 @happykiwi_nz @EliotJacobson Linux open source version of Microsoft office suite. Word, excel etc but open source versions. Comes with most modern Linux distros ( mint, fedora etc)

[Swiggity Swoogity @ComputeRiskX]

@Zenrehl @eldenlordgg Real time with pause. You can pause combat to issue more commands but other wise it’s real time. Baldurs gate 1, baldurs gate 2, pillars of eternity, tyranny, pathfinder,Star Wars the old republic. All of them are real time RPGs with pause mechanics. Not turn based