Oh great job guys. You know that tech oligarch who amassed obscene wealth by doing financialization? He was super left wing until he saw your post
December 2, 2024 at 9:16 PM
Oh great job guys. You know that tech oligarch who amassed obscene wealth by doing financialization? He was super left wing until he saw your post
Financialization is as antithetical to society as fascism and needs to be expunged and resisted from every angle possible.
December 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Financialization is as antithetical to society as fascism and needs to be expunged and resisted from every angle possible.
I wrote about Gannett’s plan to kill off one of the last pieces of American legacy media to resist financialization: The Associated Press.
mattdpearce.substack.com/p/wall-stree...
mattdpearce.substack.com/p/wall-stree...
Wall Street declares war on the Associated Press
Gannett and Reuters come for one of the final corners for legacy media that had resisted the financialization of journalism.
mattdpearce.substack.com
January 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I wrote about Gannett’s plan to kill off one of the last pieces of American legacy media to resist financialization: The Associated Press.
mattdpearce.substack.com/p/wall-stree...
mattdpearce.substack.com/p/wall-stree...
The financialization of every aspect of every industry means even something basic like job security just becomes a shitty casino game
February 20, 2026 at 8:15 PM
The financialization of every aspect of every industry means even something basic like job security just becomes a shitty casino game
In a way, Musk/SpaceX are a perfect encapsulation of the way that financialization logic has overtaken reality
June 20, 2026 at 4:04 PM
In a way, Musk/SpaceX are a perfect encapsulation of the way that financialization logic has overtaken reality
the housing crisis is due to financialization not to immigration
September 25, 2026 at 3:56 PM
the housing crisis is due to financialization not to immigration
it is extremely weird that nfts failed and we're still getting the financialization of everything
Forbes plans to launch prediction platform Forbes Predict in February; a widget next to articles will allow readers to make forecasts in exchange for tokens (Sara Guaglione/Digiday)
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January 23, 2026 at 3:02 PM
it is extremely weird that nfts failed and we're still getting the financialization of everything
pet theory I have is that this is partly down to financialization of everything. same reason why house flippers pick bland, lowest common denominator paint colors and fixtures
it's amazing how even the most trash cars of the past are 10x cooler looking than pretty much everything in production today
April 21, 2026 at 5:20 PM
pet theory I have is that this is partly down to financialization of everything. same reason why house flippers pick bland, lowest common denominator paint colors and fixtures
Look animation is the bane of modern financialization. Its slow, expensive, and requires specialized knowledge. Its also always popular. They can’t help but try to destroy it along the way. But it never dies.
February 2, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Look animation is the bane of modern financialization. Its slow, expensive, and requires specialized knowledge. Its also always popular. They can’t help but try to destroy it along the way. But it never dies.
In conclusion, the financialization of everything has been bad for democracy and human thriving.
May 11, 2026 at 2:02 PM
In conclusion, the financialization of everything has been bad for democracy and human thriving.
Financialization Machine goes Brrrrrrrrr
September 22, 2026 at 10:58 AM
Financialization Machine goes Brrrrrrrrr
Crypto currencies are the financialization of fraud. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
Breaking Down Trump’s Entanglements With Crypto
The cryptocurrency sector has been one of the biggest winners so far during the president’s second term.
www.wsj.com
May 19, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Crypto currencies are the financialization of fraud. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
I wrote about Kalshi, prediction markets, and the vision of total financialization by turning every opinion into a tradable assets www.fastcompany.com/91457404/kal...
The Kalshi-fication of everything
The predictions platform is revealing what a world of total financialization will look like.
www.fastcompany.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I wrote about Kalshi, prediction markets, and the vision of total financialization by turning every opinion into a tradable assets www.fastcompany.com/91457404/kal...
It’s a good time to mention for people who may be new-ish to me: I promise that I am familiar with MOOCs, Ed-tech, financialization, credentialism. Promise.
October 17, 2025 at 12:57 PM
It’s a good time to mention for people who may be new-ish to me: I promise that I am familiar with MOOCs, Ed-tech, financialization, credentialism. Promise.
The financialization of everything, baby! It's the American Way!
October 12, 2023 at 2:01 PM
The financialization of everything, baby! It's the American Way!
i will continue to be irritated that american corporate boards have gone full tilt into hiring for financialization wizardry rather than, you know, business acumen for most executive roles
i have a pretty strong bias toward assuming at least a middling level of competence but it really does feel like the biggest companies in the world are all just making shit up right now
November 6, 2025 at 10:26 PM
i will continue to be irritated that american corporate boards have gone full tilt into hiring for financialization wizardry rather than, you know, business acumen for most executive roles
Oh, man. When you start getting into the financialization aspect, slavery breaks containment from the American South real quick
September 7, 2026 at 11:07 PM
Oh, man. When you start getting into the financialization aspect, slavery breaks containment from the American South real quick
The metrification of everything is really just the financialization of everything, which is destroying us, our art, the planet, etc
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The fact that Steam reviews and wishlists matter as much as they do has got to be the most "what are we doing here, man" thing about the indie games business
May 6, 2025 at 4:08 AM
The metrification of everything is really just the financialization of everything, which is destroying us, our art, the planet, etc
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bsky.app/profile/ianb...
there's something at the back of my brain that's been bubbling for awhile about so many tech executives going frothingly insane because virtually all of them understand that their real talent is financialization and financial manipulation, and they're all absolutely seething about it.
I will admit my views of the tech industry have radically changed in a way my overall politics haven’t since the election, for fairly obvious reasons. I still won’t jump on the pro-Luddite (any sense, and yes I know the real history) bandwagon but I truly did expect better of the industry
February 26, 2025 at 3:05 AM
there's something at the back of my brain that's been bubbling for awhile about so many tech executives going frothingly insane because virtually all of them understand that their real talent is financialization and financial manipulation, and they're all absolutely seething about it.
Financialization is a cognitohazard that sucks all the life out of living.
January 14, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Financialization is a cognitohazard that sucks all the life out of living.
To add to Dara’s observation, financialization means investors can make money running something into the ground. Workers only get paychecks if they have jobs. So the incentives are different from how management typically presents them. bsky.app/profile/dara...
The fact that newsroom union representatives are often the ones asking what the business strategy is (happened recently with LAT and WaPo) should be a really significant signal that what is happening on the ownership side is neither business nor strategy
There are a lot media executives and owners that have exactly two modes;
1) six figure splashy marketing event with big names and goodie bags to promote the brand on a trajectory of rapid growth
And
2) sorry everyone is laid off now
1) six figure splashy marketing event with big names and goodie bags to promote the brand on a trajectory of rapid growth
And
2) sorry everyone is laid off now
February 1, 2024 at 2:32 AM
To add to Dara’s observation, financialization means investors can make money running something into the ground. Workers only get paychecks if they have jobs. So the incentives are different from how management typically presents them. bsky.app/profile/dara...
a thing that i think is a national security imperative whenever we have the votes to get it through is a meteor sized crackdown on the tax and financialization chicanery that empowered both musk *and* trump
details in here. I wouldn't say it's stupidity per se, as OP says it's a fervent belief that paying taxes is for chumps even if you lose money (which is meta stupid, but still) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
February 2, 2025 at 4:34 AM
a thing that i think is a national security imperative whenever we have the votes to get it through is a meteor sized crackdown on the tax and financialization chicanery that empowered both musk *and* trump
Poilievre also mentioned Brookfield's role in the financialization of the housing market (that means people/companies treating housing as a financial asset rather than, like, a right).
So Poilievre knows what financialization of housing is...but only apparently in the context of criticizing Carney.
So Poilievre knows what financialization of housing is...but only apparently in the context of criticizing Carney.
March 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Poilievre also mentioned Brookfield's role in the financialization of the housing market (that means people/companies treating housing as a financial asset rather than, like, a right).
So Poilievre knows what financialization of housing is...but only apparently in the context of criticizing Carney.
So Poilievre knows what financialization of housing is...but only apparently in the context of criticizing Carney.
So cynical how AI music corps are using accessibility in their marketing language, just as streaming platforms use democratization. These corporations are stripping music of value and musicians of our livelihood. Financialization is not punk rock
All AI music does is devalue the work done by human artists. It’s not accessibility, it’s exploitation. We need real protections for artists against AI!
BTW — even if you had access to this AI startup as a child, you still wouldn’t know how to make music.
BTW — even if you had access to this AI startup as a child, you still wouldn’t know how to make music.
November 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
So cynical how AI music corps are using accessibility in their marketing language, just as streaming platforms use democratization. These corporations are stripping music of value and musicians of our livelihood. Financialization is not punk rock
"but samantha that's just financialization of public goods and you can't--" literally the greatest economic minds the soviet union could put together agonized over this for years before realizing that even under communism money has a price
July 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
"but samantha that's just financialization of public goods and you can't--" literally the greatest economic minds the soviet union could put together agonized over this for years before realizing that even under communism money has a price