Never Let a Crisis Go To Waste

Sometimes you just have to dunk on these mofos.

With a headline like that, there are a variety of ways I could go with this, huh?

Is he going to finally write about the ‘rona again?

Is he going to write about the military industrial complex or something about Ukraine?

Is he going to write about the impending digital identity surveillance state and the permissioned financial system?

The Crisis

Paul Krugman’s Venmo account is locked. The douchebag statists employees at Venmo can’t seem to help him:

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Too busy to tweet. But not to vent. I've been using Venmo for years, but now it won't allow me to make payments. I spent a long time in chat with representatives, and they told me that they can't explain why — or fix it. The software has taken control.

This is the Paul Krugman who plays an economist on TV. He’s the same Paul Krugman who said the internet would fail to live up to the hype. According to Pauley Dum Dum:

by 2005, it would become clear that the Internet's effect on the economy is no greater than the fax machine's

Woof. What a miraculously bad take. It’s almost as bad as this one:

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Cryptocurrency lets you make electronic transactions; but so do bank accounts, debit cards, Paypal, Venmo etc. All these other methods involve trusting a third party; but unless you're buying drugs, assassinations etc. that's not a big deal 6/

These are the moments crypto advocates live for.

And we’re not letting this crisis go to waste…

Neeraj K. Agrawal @NeerajKA

@paulkrugman were you trying to buy drugs or assassination?

Neeraj in the study with a candlestick. There is no recovery from this.