A live action BERSERK would go so hard. Everyone would watch. It has everything: incredible story, heart, action, blood, supernatural, horror, both strong male and female protagonist, most notorious fangirl bait villain ever conceived, etc. The world could handle a true dark fantasy series. But it has to be done right, no edits, no censorship, no changing anything. It has to go all the way. Get the right cinematography, music, actors, director, etc. Put it on HBO with a big budget. No compromises. Normies would have never seen anything like it before. People would be shocked. It would become an iconic show. It would fill the GoT void.
@Andercot It’s a few generations from being great
Problem is no profit in current generations to spin the capitalist flywheel around to reach the later generations
Many tech trees go dark and unexplored for the same reason
The IPO system is broken. You don’t go public to raise growth capital anymore. You do it to dump equity on retail.
NVIDIA went public at ~$600mn in 1999. Microsoft at 780mn. Oracle at ~270mn. Intel at 58mn!
Today you won’t IPO even at $60 billion.
At a $600 million valuation if you hit the jackpot and become a $60 billion company in public markets that’s a 100x return.
Investing $10k as retail makes you a millionaire. This is wealth creation.
At $60 billion there’s very little chance you get to $600 billion let alone 100x from there. You will certainly lose money as retail.
Mathematically if you only allow $100 billion IPOs you’re basically capping upside at maybe 10-20x. There’s no more 100x or 1000x potential. And even 10x is extremely unlikely.
Airbnb, Uber DoorDash are maybe 10x outcomes at best for retail investors. These are supposed be success stories of last decade.
Apple Microsoft Tesla Google were all 100x opportunities for retail.
So you’ve basically cut the average middle class investor out of the upside while private markets and insiders keep most of it for themselves.
Every so often I think about how, in 2022, for $24B we could had "prototype vaccines ready for each of the 26 known viral families that cause human disease" so they can be deployed in 100 days if there was ever a need.
This effort was not funded. https://t.co/TJBuqp69Nn
@ns123abc stop glazing. theres a betting market for this trial, the best source of truth for how things are shaking out and it hasn't budged much since trial started. post non-ai, balanced takes, or stfu
I hate all of this so much. We should really force companies to ipo, it's absolutely insane that we don't.
Secondary markets, spvs, complicated multi company funds, it's all just regulatory arbitrage on getting people access without an ipo.
If you have >500 non accredited shareholders, you already need to file with the sec. We just don't want to admit that stock comp should count as the harms are the same. It's a disservice to the employees who don't have liquidity, to the non rich public who can't invest, and to the economy as a whole where we have no public financials or audits.
If they want to be private, let them be but don't let them have their cake and eat it too.
@uwukko Edit: 2 other people in the comments mentioned it. Still shocked. In fairness it is outdated UI but incredibly effective at learning a language.
i could look up the word “the” using gmail’s search function and it would gleefully tell me i have never sent or received an email containing that word in my entire life
the annual social cost of cancer and auto accidents are very roughly equivalent
imagine a new cancer drug came out that reduced mortality by 90% across *every* cancer
And the AMA aggressively lobbied against it because of its potential suppressive impact on hospital visits and surgeries...
That is the unions wrt to autonomous robotaxis right now.
We have reached an era where some people have not touched a steering wheel and have simply let their cars drive them around for a whole year, whereas others do not know this is possible at all.
Big cities like LA or NYC could quickly solve their quality of life issues by jailing or involuntarily committing the small number of mentally ill people and hardcore criminals responsible for most of our problems, but we don’t have the courage or political will to do it.