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For reasons outlined elsewhere, one should not be surprised to see the ascendancy of forms of human self-organization refiguring capitalist incentive and governance structures, and animated by alternative localized mythologies combusting social energy into cultural and economic product. In other words, wired entities that incorporate the characteristics of companies, cults, and squads1. The internet increasingly becomes ‘hard communication’ or ‘hard socialization’, and just as hard money eats soft money, the Wired is already eating the Real as the most effective tool to build social networks2. The shrewd young prince is incentivized to move his business and social life online by the obvious comparative advantages in immediacy, geographic-agnosticism, and algorithmic compatibility-matching, and governance. As this phenomenon emerges, the premium on genuine friendship spikes, in precisely the era that it becomes punished (as friendship-based economic networks threaten state power, it is

March 13, 2023 >> Choosing Friends and Business Partners In the future (now) Tags: Business | Power | Virtue | Table of Contents Loyalty Personal Virtue Energy Mental Illness (Socially-Validated Sin) Romantic Success Luck ( = Agency = Energy) Nuanced Factors Poverty Vice For reasons outlined elsewhere, one should not be surprised to see the ascendancy of forms of human self-organization refiguring capitalist incentive and governance structures, and animated by alternative localized mythologies combusting social energy into cultural and economic product. In other words, wired entities that inco

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