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1. Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 05:18:04 JST Charlie Stross

   • John Appel

   @jappel They basically don't understand money. (To be fair, not many people do—and most of what passes for economics and business reporting in the media seeds confusion by deliberately pushing an ideologically biased misunderstanding with intent to make profit.)

   • Jamie McCarthy (jamiemccarthy@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 05:17:54 JST Jamie McCarthy

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     • John Appel

     @cstross @jappel I thought the Notebooks were super cool when I was a teenager, but even then I remember doing some soul-searching about the author’s toxic politics. Now of course it’s easy to recognize it as part of the fans-are-slans, Galt’s-Gulch, hear-the-lamentation-of-the-women philosophies that Heinlein and so many of his generation drew from.

   • Kevin Marks (kevinmarks@xoxo.zone)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 05:18:42 JST Kevin Marks

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     • Jamie McCarthy
     • John Appel

     @jamiemccarthy @cstross @jappel young Heinlein did understand money (you can see it explained well in For Us The Living and even Beyond This Horizon) but he lost it later on. The post stroke novels remind me of talking with post stroke or Altzheimer relatives where occasionally they come up with amazingly lucid personal narratives, but they can't maintain coherence for very long.