@AcaciaCap@tangentstyle How does that not make sense? That scenario is actually one of the few times he would sit with an analyst and turn the model. I know the (former) analyst and it’s real
@tangentstyle Isn’t this largely irrelevant if you’re actually wealthy & have trusts set up? Can’t imagine who will end up actually paying this except for unsophisticated $1-5 mil in assets or those who die young/unexpected
@bankingslut If you have 10 companies, 4 of them go to zero, 6 of them are ok and ~double EV over holding period. Would you rather be the equity or the debt?
Obvi not good for either but PE has upside to offset and didn’t stretch into the sketchiest bad convexity for yield
@Appyg99 Isn’t access to handheld superintelligence actually great long term for an economy that has hundreds of millions of uneducated poor people? effectively higher baseline IQ for everyone