Al decadente do you like art or do you eat your pasta overcooked?

HeHEEYy, this is the 2nd edition of the zero inside information newsletter 

Food finance fashion failure. 

Here at the jerk off institute 

Intro 

Aperitivo Gingerino after a long day of Gioco di ruolo dal vivo

The year is 2014 you think about the future 

While thinking about the future you think:

What will life be like in the year 2044?

In your jaded optimism you imagine a dystopian future, because you are on Tumblr its 2014 and that’s what you do. 

All CO2 emissions have gone back to zero, Facebook bought Twitter for the symbolic amount of  one Bitcoin. 

The United States has rebranded. The United States.com. 

Life is Tech, tech is life. 

Every single Generation Z kid has committed suicide. 

Lidl smart home, lidl’s Alexa.

Now knows from data when and where your partner is horny. 

Turns out Its surprisingly often 

Bolivia Is a lithium bubble fulled tech-hub.

CEO is a pronoun, Argentina is a tax Haven. 

Nestle owns the air, Ikea owns the rain Lidls attempts to buy it was in vain. 

Everybody has back pain. 

A hot topic at the dinner table is, why people don't eat anymore, we are all done with food. 

Your brain interface computer displays how much crypto you have on your current balance, And every single moment of the day, in the corner of your right eye peripheral vision is preoccupied with your financial status. At least google glass didn’t become a thing.

Your limbic system is shut down. There is no desire anymore. Lock-on laconian thought about the real is finally eradicated. Fuck you Freud. You think you can own me? 

Emotions Are now traded Happily as an end of tea (NFT)

Tik-tok celebrates the birth of its 

one millionth Ideology 

When and where were you? 

When you went outside for the last time. 

Holy shit, go inside. 

I don't do drugs. Have you seen the Sun? Vitamin d stronger than desire for the D.

The year is 2044. 3D rendering is tough in kindergarten It is the bicentennial(love that word bicentennial ) birth year of Friederich Nietzche 

which it is actually not as death year. It is the anniversary of his insanity. 

Everybody is a germaphobe, more people than ever before break a bone by lifting a finger. 

Therapists do 

Tattoos now 

Universal Health Care 

Includes one free tattoo removal a year 

All Social housing is antisquad.

Most kids are dead set on becoming a landlord

It's time to talk about the demise of European glamour. 

The Coté d'Azur of the internet.

Perhaps we need, to counter this slow demise.

Al decadente do you like art or do you eat a you spaghetti overcooked

a ristretto of modernity: bari, tokyo, milan

Let’s talk about subjects that matter. That we identify with.

Universal basic spaghetti 

My consulting practice is mainly focused on challenges at the intersection of spaghetti, analogous development (sauce), and economics.

IN THIS MAISON WE ARE DESKTOP MAXIMALISTS. 

Obsessed with rendering fat

Melting matter to come to purer content

Unlocking the taste of fuzzy sets. 

I exclusively deal with fuzzy sets.

Entangled fresh egg paintings of meatballs whose elements have degrees of membership of vague qualitative or quantitative data, frequently generated by means of the natural language.

Over the last decade 2015 (it truly started think about it you know it ——000 as wee get closer to the 2030s 

I have worked with clients and imaginary friends in a wide variety of sectors

A sort of Donny Darko consulting, unintended, incoherent and unasked for.

including computing/software, sauce viscosity levels, salt ratios. A Quantum polenta, good old pure unfiltered big batch stacks, eat the same everyday so you will go crazy, gioco di ruolo dal vivo, means larp in italian 

This podcast is a 

A ristretto of modernity.

Over caffeinated with the goal to do nothing. 

I usually work 1:1 with senior executives, but in rare cases, I work with teams or organisations as a whole. Belastingdienst Gemeente BVG twitter.

Monsieur In this Michelin Star establishment we airbrush the pomodoro on to the spaghetti

Stackzibit B:Airbrush the pomodoro

Chapter 1 Antipasti 

The opening to a subprime mortgage financed  -most pressing- dinner

A subprime loan is a loan offered to individuals at an interest rate above prime, who do not qualify for conventional loans. Such individuals have low income, limited credit history, poor quality collateral, or poor credit.

Is it true that doom-scrolling spectatorship not necessarily blast away cultural ordinance until there is no ammunition left,

but rather inflames and inflates the current material, to a big smoking helium balloon animal with the frivolous determination of a 40-year-old chain smoker, happily lighting another one? 

like making an Italian ragu that you eat for seven consecutive days, adding more and more pasta to less sauce. 

I was watching an interview that dated from 2018, wherein they brought all the major player off the 2008 financial crisis together at a dinner.

Personally I think that is a great idea. Bringing all the players together.

They should host more of these niche dinner parties were they bring people together. 

One of these fuckers said. “I am glad that the economy bounced back”

I stare at the screen. 

A spring rain started to tickle the window of my flat every so softly as if singing a lullaby. 

In the short-circuiting of neurones caused by this statement

I quickly switch tabs to a Neo-emo doing a laconian lecture

Talking about the real, the empty object of desire and projections

Down the hall way my roommate audibly spanks his premium mediocre tinder date. 

The thought of sex, dominance and old testament punishment make my mind snap the fuck back.

THE ECONOMY BOUNCED BACK?

What? When?

Kids born in 2001, were seven back in 2008 

They are 20 now, they have know nothing but a melanzane of excrement. A technocratic hot pie made of layers off shit from 5 continents. 

O-9, 10, 11, 12, 14

I do not remember ever bouncing back. 

But then something dawned on me,

I quickly google it. 

Ah yes! But of course.

I am European. 

The financial crisis here, never really went away it just stuck around like an old dude at a party that slowly becomes one with the furniture.

First there was Lehman brothers going bust, these fantastic big moods. Banker with boxes. Cardboard boxes. 

Europe laughing, if I recall correctly the German social democratic finance Peer Steinbrucke minister said,

This is a problem of Anglo-Saxon capitalism, 11 months later he had a problem.

Then it turned out our banking system was heavily cucked by the American banking system. 

It became apparent that they had bought envelopes full of fragmentised products looking good on the outside but actually all equally worthless, a sort of proto instagram. 

Some of these firms were casually booking tiny  losses. such as this little know bank, the vampire squid aka Goldman Sachs booked a 2.1 billion quarterly loss. 

While Obama was doing Clinton 3 with Ben Bernanke. Showering the banking system with gold. 

Europe was finding out it did not even have a central bank as a lender of last resort.

So we got black swanned right up the ass into the euro crisis of 2015, where the idea was that if greek pensioners have less, that will help Deutsche bank not go bust, and because northern European banks had toxic greek assets up to 160 percent of there national GDP on their balance sheets.  

We were promised flying Cars and all we got was Spotify and Yung Lean

I am serious. 

Let’s think about the decade from a European perspective.

One group of players with their balls on the chess board are obviously the fashion houses, 

But they are all kinda whack lame and failing, if I’m not mistaken.

Plus, they are all boomers now. right?

A Italian fashion designer that will remain nameless  said in an interview

“I think we are at a turning point, were it (fashion-J) will go completely commercial or go more moral”

B! you sell bags.

Don’t u have like 22 factories 

And 18.000 employees

So I guess that little love story is over right? Officially un-fucking cool. 

Then there are the millennial-madman fashion designer Wojaks of course. 

I think they really knew how to shoehorn a majestic French fashion houses into the hyper irony of the mid tens. I mean props for that I fucking gueesss.

This was very much not a decade of 

Shrooms, red wine, Risotto 

Espresso, bacon and ketamine

But a decade:

Of cocaine, crises and insufficient credit.

Chapter 2 Primi

Fettuccine of Failure

Let’s talk about failure in a non demeaning way. Because the beauty of failure is that true humiliation is never in short supply, it is an ego emotion, an emotion that is unsharable, unlike sadness anger ect. Humiliation and jealousy are deeply coupled emotions. I think they are not necessarily direct opposites of one another, but I do think they're kind of coupled together. As twins. Humiliation is special because It's actually nobody else, then you that cares about humiliation. If you ever get a humiliated, people leave the room and maybe somebody tells another funny story to somebody else, but Other than that nobody cares for one more second after that. You have to let It Go and I think jealousy is in that sense also, an ugly emotion. if you tell somebody that you're jealous of I don't know whatever. 

You can't do anything about it. You just have to eat it. You just have to let it go, maybe lay awake at night for hours. And then usually it's almost a very bodily limbic system type of decision where you just say like, okay, fuck it. No more of this. I'm over it. 

And in that light I want to talk about Schiaparelli, both in the previous century. And in this Century. Italian fashion designer and a Mars Lander of the same name, the European space agency and staunch rivalry between Nasa, Coco Chanel and Schiaparelli's

Couture designs are garments made to measure for the individual clients. They're usually the height of luxury in terms of textiles and attention to detail and maybe even in creative intervention. Now, this is basically the biggest jerk off in the field dress making techniques and in finishings. Couture houses, like those of Elza's Schiaparelli offer the highest standard in luxury. The Pinnacle of bullshit's as well as the pinnacle of shopping. It was Italian fashion designer Elza's Schiaparelli along with Coco Chanel which was interestingly enough her greatest rival. She was regarded one of the most prominent figures in the Fashion World between the two World Wars. The interbellum, and she started out with some knitwear and her couture designs were heavily influenced by the dada surrealists. 

Which is of course also like an interbellum art phase some of her collaborators were Salvador Dali and Jean Cocteau. 

Salvador Dali has this hilarious line that he is a painter for the Freudian age, for the atomic age, which is of course why he was obsessed with slow motion High Speed photography. He has this painting about the crown of milk, which is basically just like a microscopic photo of drop of milk splashing in a pool of milk and creating this Crown effect. Total jerk of avant la lettre  

Whilst in Paris, Schiaparelli—"Schiap" to her friends—began making her own clothes.  she started her own business but it closed in 1926 despite favourable reviews, which is a power move If you're ask me.  she launched a new collection of knitwear in 1927 using a special double layered Stitch created by Armenian refugees and featuring sweaters with surrealist trompe-l'œil images

Which is this crazy like actually highly specific French thing.

Painting buildings and perspectives on buildings and it is fucking weird. Some of her first designs appeared in vogue, the business really took off with a pattern that gives the impression of a scarf wrapped around the wearer's neck. Pour le sport collection expanded the following year including bathing suit, ski wear and linen dresses. What I think is weird. Is that like how these twenties? Really resembles sort of late capitalism, which is a term I hate, bit presumptuous? I think. 

Drugs tourism to Berlin is the first notion of like people doing cocaine in a sort of clubbing environment.

It were Dutch tourists going to Germany in the early 1920’s. 

But then also this ski resort sort of proto Prada collections in 1927. It feels like there was really already some sort of like epitome of modernity. Of course like the Nazis using methamphetamines for strategic totally non psy-op reasons.

Schiaparelli added evening wear to her collections in 1931 using luxury silks, And the business went from strength to strength culminating in a move from Rue de la Paix to acquiring the renowned salon of Louise Chéruit at 21 Place Vendôme, which was rechristened the Schiap Shop.

A darker tone was set when France declared war on Germany in 1939. So in word War II they didn't really start with fighting right away, first you had sort of like a winter of chilling called the phonywar.  What I think is crazy, is that She responded to that with a spring 1940 collection featured trench Brown and camouflage Prints.  Thats not unlike Verscace doing a Syrian civil War themed collection 

little Hamas 

Golden bikini. 

But then again Call of Duty did a Syrian civil war game, and Red scare had ISIS merch 

So I’m conflicted maybe its noting out of the ordinary, it does feel a little off tho since dada was basically a movement against the craziness of war, and then her turning up to the function like guess its gonna be camo print this year. What you gonna do when the big g roll through? 

After Fall of Paris, which think we can't even begin to understand like how dramatic that was because like people expected like a four or five year long war and it was over in like less than three weeks. 

Basically Luxembourg attacks the united states and its over in 3 weeks.

She moved back to New York. 

Because she was on lecture tour, apart from a few months in Paris in early 1941 to remain in New York City until the end of the war which likes makes me think like people still traveled? That is crazy on her return she found that like fashion has changed and Christian Dior  broke through with his new look making it a rejection of pre-war fashion. Schiaparelli really struggled in austerity of the post-war period. Schiaparelli discontinued her Couture business in 1951, and finally closed down heavily indebted to the design house in 1954, the same year her great rival Coco Chanel returned to the business. In 1945 Schiaparelli publisher her biography Shocking life. Great title if you ask me, she lived out a comfortable retirement between Pairs and her apartment  In Tunisia, she died on 13th of November 1973 at the age of 83. 

Schiaparelli is one of the designers credited with offering the first clothes with visible zippers. So that sounds like, yeah, she was truly modern, this is something that we still do today, and the like that's she came up with that shit. Rather than being concealed zippers became a key element of 

these designs, visible fastenings and neck zippers, 

Lines running down the sleeves and skirts. She used chunky plastic zipper is made from cellulose nitrate, which is actually plastic and the first semi synthetic plastic Fabric. So this was really some Prada kind of it girl, you know, like she would probably carry the laptop bag around if it wasn't like born in the previous Century but in the girl boss century. 

Schiaparelli was a renowned for her usual buttons, for example candlesticks, playing guard, emblems, ships, crowns, mirrors and crickets. I think a mirror button is that is quite elegant. So that's to me is height of luxury, if you have sex and you like start to unbutton to dress for the jacket or whatever the fuck the person is wearing. You see like your last horny face? Reflected in this mirror button. American psycho type fuckin.

I think that is that is some real comment on like sex positivity. Mirrored buttons 

In a Anachronistic way. 

The failure of her business meant that Schiaparelli’s name was not well remembered as that of her great Rivals Chanel but in 1934, time magazine placed Chanel in the second division of fashion, which I think she still fucking remains, huh? Where as Schiaparelli was one of a handful of houses now at at or near the peak of their powers as Arbiters of the ultra-modern haute couture. Madder and more original than most of her contemporaries, Schiaparelli is one of whom the word genius is applied most often at the time, time magazine recognised that Chanel had assembled a Fortune of some 15 million u.s. Dollars before War which is I think that's crazy amount of money back then like corrected for inflation, especially a corrected before the crisis of 1971. Not at the present level of inflation. 

Schiaparelli had relied more on her inspiration rather than craftsmanship. It was not long before every little dress Factory in Manhattan had a copied them from the New York Third Avenue to San Francisco's Howard Street and millions of shops girls who had never heard of Schiaparelli are proudly wearing her models. I think this really Taps into this idea that like the the highest honour as a creative is the invention of a cliche. 

If you make something that everybody else copies and becomes an instant classic, like that's what you really want. 

Skip ahead one boomers life time and I’m sitting here For years and years I have tried to make sense of things that just happened, retreating in a fantasy world as escapism because it parallels science fiction, in the sense that lapping science fiction in the mid tens was funny, it was funny to speculate about the future. But as soon as science fiction became real, just look out of the window, and you live in dystopian boring world. It is actually kind of harrowing. 

And not that funny at all. I think your role as an artist is to use us good Vision to escape into your own fantasy world, has been cut short by the fact that we're now all so lonely and isolated straight up atomised even. So when you work in Art Academy, you have fun Syncing with your mates, using the means of production your art academy has to offer, you don't have to organise anything. 

Art school is a big belated coming of age extravaganza for by daddy issued plagued teens who had difficulties in high school. 

As soon as you graduate from Art Academy, you are probably going to take a shared Studio space, usually ending up with morons, and it's really disappointing.

I think that's because coolness and organisational skills are in direct opposition of one another it's hard to organise anything. Being cool comes with a lacklustre Attitude towards the world 

I think it's fundamentally wrong. 

That there's nothing cool, but Tech. 

Millennials really went from I tech, to boi Do I hate tech. in a very rapid movement. 

Yet I am conflicted, I feel analog stuff can never really Escape hipster dumb. Anyway, that is its own form of nostalgia of becoming Forbes hipster of the year 2009. 

It's not great. 

I'm very much into early 2010 strange Tech content. 

There is a Wonderfull video from 2012 where Jack Dorsey of twitter claims he is still punk. 

Hate to break you dude, you can’t be punk on a laptop 

That’s actually arithmetically impossible.  

I think it's really good If we just tried to Define some terms here. 

So I've divided by the previous decade into three epochs

I think 2013- 2015 was: jaded optimism

2015-2017 hyper irony

2018-2020: frivolous larping

2021-20xx : ,,,sfabkfbf]

Not only fashion designers are called Schiaparelli 

Mars lander robots are also called Schiaparelli. 

The €230m ($251m) Schiaparelli had spent seven months travelling 496m kilometres (308m miles) onboard the so-called Trace Gas Orbiter to within a million kilometres of Mars when it set off on its own mission to reach the surface.

After a scorching, supersonic dash through Mars’s thin atmosphere, it was supposed to glide gently towards the planet’s surface.

For a safe landing, Schiaparelli had to slow from 21,000km/h (13,000mph) to zero, and survive temperatures of more than 

1,500C (2,730F) generated by atmospheric drag.

It was equipped with a discardable, heat-protective shell, a parachute and nine thrusters to decelerate, and a crushable structure in its belly to cushion the final impact.

I feel souls are also made of a crushable structure but that’s probably a 2018type doomer complex, that now has to be stoped.

The landing site of a European spacecraft that was supposed to make a historic touchdown on Mars has been identified in images that suggest the probe suffered a violent collision at the surface.

Images from Nasa Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show a large “fuzzy dark patch” that scientists think was caused by huge plumes of dust thrown up in a high-speed crash - and may even indicate the probe exploded on impact.

The parachute was released from Schiaparelli ahead of its final landing sequence, during which its nine thrusters should have slowed it to a walking pace just above the surface.

But data beamed back from the lander to its mothership, the Trace Gas Orbiter, show that its thrusters only fired for three or four seconds rather than 30 seconds as intended. Schiaparelli continued transmitting for a further 19 seconds before going silent.

So here I imagine a scene from a mission control centre that is  quite elaborate in its setup. We have all these data screens, live graph feeds a bunch of nerds that studied their whole lives for this come together, that is probably as close to a full erect Boner of Technology as one can possibly get.

Aligning two points in space millions of kilometres away from the earth, threading an extraterrestrial needle with shaky hands and very long arms. The Schiaparelli is ready to land and start its Landing sequence and you know, some of these like kind of spergy looking dudes sweating over their mechanical keyboards and their anime figures on top of the desk. 

they’re all sitting in these semi Circle computer array screens. Up top. The roof is black with tiny white bright LEDs. Equally distributed but also in a kind of random pattern. So the reflections kind of resemble a starry night. Every single one of them is wearing these like funky telemarketer headsets, of course. 

And this is where the computer of the Mars Lander just decides that it's not at like the actual correct height of Four to five kilometres, but rather the computer thinks it's -5 is below the ground. 

So on rather than 30 seconds, the thrusters switch one but they only continue for 4 seconds 

Decelerating the the mars lander jack shit. 

The parachute opens and it's instantly rips forming this beautiful dress coming down the surface of Mars at a speed of  300 km an hour.

I imagine  it must have been the most beautiful fashion performance of all time. 

This white greyish Tech fabric of the parachute just roaring through the orange brown atmosphere of Mars. In an entirely like deconstructive death spiral tumbling and ripping and making these crazy sounds. 

I image it as a strange laser like sounds, made by the whipping of the carbon fibre parachute ropes, overlaid by a chorus rip and tear of hight tech materials, all the wile a continuous drone of the rushing wind dips the whole ensemble in an existential death wish.

 and then these I imagine these like Italian Engineers looking at the screen just going: Cazzo 

In the design process, I think there was probably also some, you know, semi competitive European squabble about who's going to do what you know. The fancy Germans humourless as always, they are  just like, you know pointing to each other and saying, “you know what, you know be funny it's the multi-million dollar project. I think really funny if we let the Italians make it”

Ending up with this very stylish Versace looking Mars Lander with like beautiful little details, but completely dysfunctional. 

Ending up disintegrating into a ball of fire and fabric and foam

Scientists now think that after the thrusters switched off, Schiaparelli plummeted in freefall from a height of between two and four kilometres, and hit the surface at more than 300 km (186 miles) per hour. The fuzzy patch, which is roughly 15 by 40 metres in size, would indicate the halo of disturbed surface material .

Speaking before the lander was identified, Jorge Vago, the ExoMars project scientist, said it was critical for the team to work out what went wrong. “Of course we are disappointed that the landing didn’t go well ... The silver lining is we have a lot of detailed information,” he said. “I think we will be able to explain it.”

Jorge Vago, a scientist on the project, told Nature.com: “My guess is that at that point we were still too high. The most likely scenario is that, from then, we just dropped to the surface.”

Both Schiaparelli’s, fashion designer and mars lander, are falling angels symbolising a cascade of diminishing return curves, very European in a way.

Stackzibit F: Schiaparellis terminal decent with a dress parachute.

Chapter 3 Secondi

Parmigiana alla precarietà

It is also hard to accept the, for real, in the sense that it was hard to just use 3D printed materials. With the same self-reference quality as using paint.

Paint is Paint, its performative in and off itself

3D printing is just very 2015 in a way. 

I think it's crazy how 

The American technocratic answers to the financial crisis of 2008 actually completely worked, the banks paid back their wall of money that was invested by the Fed. 

Yes it was a sticky recovery but as of Q3 2009, the economy was back on 2 percent GDP growth again. 

That doesn't like remove the fact though that this was a jobless recovery. And this is something we've seen  after the.com bubble of  2002 as well

The economy recovered and sadly you had this jobless recovery, the economy bounced back growth, but people were Still unemployed.

During the brexit debate, this one dude went up north, in  the north of England.

said like "yeah, if you do this, like if you vote for brexit blah blah, you will like slash the GDP, it will like become terrible blah blah and just don't want to do it" and a bloke ini the audience got up and said "your GDP" meaning,

what the fuck do I have to do with  slashing the GDP, if all the money ends up in London anyway right? Fuck that. 

So this obviously spawned a level of populism and the financial crisis that underwent some sort of metamorphosis. Although  the latest books on economics are now debating this, and this is  a fair point because populism was on the rise since the 90s. I mean, I don't know Nigel Farage  for instance started his campaigns in 1992.

Precarity

There's a new book out by this Bulgarian Economist Albena Azmanova who works in Brussels. That is called capitalism on the edge. The central thesis of the book is that precarity is much more the origin of populism than inequality. Inequality is some sort of like weird measurement that doesn't actually do anything in terms of the redistribution. It is uninteresting by default. Precarity, which I think  It's a good value, in the sense that you don't really care that other people own a BMW, or you don't really look up to people that own more like mansiony Mansions than you do. But what you do look up to, is a system of security or a system of sustainable growth over time on a personal level. 

She has done interviews with Millionaires and billionaires that also talk about this albeit in a way that grinds on your ears

“I'm in this toxic job. I want to get out of the job, but I don't really know how to do this because, I worry about my kids or my grandchildren or like these houses or at least assets I have.”

which is of course completely laughable, but on the other hand the fact that these peoples have these grievances also shows that precarity is something that for goes all, And goes all the way to the top.

That made me think about this absolutely hilarious working condition survey by Goldman Sachs & Co LLC from February 2021, and this is a survey that Goldman Sachs did in their Investment Banking division with their first year analysts. They were asking like a couple of respondents some fairly basic questions, about how it is to work at Goldman Sachs.

Goldman Sachs you should know is also known as the vampire squid. Goldman Sachs is simply the Gucci of banks. The biggest Investment Bank, in terms of cream of the fucking crop value, man. This is the purest fucking arabica coffee that's being served al banca on a daily basis. These kids usually short own clients. They really know how to do this. 

This is not some other type of clownesk Lehman Brothers kind of bullshit Bank. 

No, this is, this is, 

the Davos of skiing Resorts, This where people that make anoraks, buy their anoraks. 

So I thought it would be nice to go through this PDF that I found. and I thought it would be perfect to like overlay it with some cyberpunk music or alternatively some doom OST music. So we're now going to go through the working condition survey. It's beautiful PDF looks amazing on average at first. 

How many hours have you worked this week? hundred and five hours as the mean. How many hours, have you worked per week on average since January? Ninety eight hours. How many hours do you sleep on an average? night five hours on average. What time do you sleep?  3 a.m.. 

Then they have this  little spectrum that they made, if working conditions stay the same. 

What is the likelihood you will still be working at Goldman Sachs in one month? mean 8.1 and then they asked the same question. 

What if you stay working here and the working conditions do not improve in six months?

3.5 

but then we go to the good stuff. This is like, you know, this was just an antipasti, but now we're getting this primo before we like move on to the secondoi of mental health disorders at fucking Goldman Sachs 

Rate your mental health before and after starting this job, one to ten, with ten being healthiest before. On average eight point eight, after?

two point eight six percent decrease. 

Rate your physical health before you and after you started this job 9.0 to 2.3. 

Have your work hours negatively impacted your relationships with family and Friends? A hundred percent of the correspondents said: yes. 

Do you feel a victim of the workplace abuse? 77% Yes. 

Have you sought or considered seeking counselling, therapy or any additional services for your mental health due to the stress of this job? Yes. 

Have you frequently experienced unrealistic deadlines 100% Yes? 100 percent of respondents said yes. 

Have you frequently experienced being shunned or ignored in meetings? 92% Yes. 

Have you experienced frequently excessive monitoring or micromanagement? 83 percent yes. Question: How satisfied are you with the firm: median 2.0 on a scale of 10. 

How satisfied are you with your work Life 2.0 on a scale of 10. How satisfied are you with your personal life 1.0 on a scale of 10. 

These people have made it in the royalties for our Bankers like this is all they ever wanted, right? 

Now we're gonna get the secondo, the beautiful piece of meat on the Italian dinner table and these come in the form of select analysts quotes by Goldman Sachs. 

So these are people like my age that are working there.

The sleep deprivation, the treatment by senior bankers and mental and physical stress; I've been through foster care and this is arguably worse one guy said. 

“I can't sleep anymore because my anxiety levels are through the roof my body physically hurts all the time. Mentally. I'm in a really dark place. It's less frightening to me, than what my body might succumb to if I keep up this lifestyle.” 

“There was a point where I was not eating showering or doing anything else other than working from morning until after midnight. I didn't come into this job expecting a 9 am-5 p.m. But I also didn't expect consistent 9 am-5 am either.”

“What is not okay to me is that it took 110 to 120 hours, course over week. The math is simple that leaves four hours a day for eating, sleeping, showering, bathroom and general transition time. This is beyond the level of hard-working this: 

Inhumane abuse.”

I really think that this documents works as a great counterfactual, to this idea inequality idea being the be all end all. 

These people literally have it all, and if you just for a moment think about winning the game, so to speak.

Living in New York, being Patrick Bateman. They are wearing a full face helmet with the inside made of mirrors. 

They see nothing but themselves and they don’t like it. Basically getting to live your full American psycho narcissistic jerk off dream.

Then this survey really shows that these people are deeply unhappy. These people need to be cuddled, these people need a fucking teddy bear and a good carbonara and a little bit of Peep Show and then they can move on again.

Because this is in fact, not even trying to reach and incapuslate some sort of empty object of Desire. This is an empty object that turns out to be a  big bag of excrement being Unleashed into your Soul.

Drug addiction and art school you at least choose for yourself, you know, there's like a degree of freedom in that.

But these people they have to do complicated math all day for a boss that probably doesn't understand the brunt of it, let alone the nitty gritty. 

Work at Goldman Schachs is pure in the sense that It is what it is, it's purely shit. 

People say you cannot spit into the soup, but what if the soup is made out of spit?

I think this taps into like the Tinder idea were people want to be fuckable more than they want to fuck. 

Hedonism is an equation where people 

Seek pleasure, but avoid pain it's a two part equation:

We model and predict behaviours and results of those behaviours. Because if we experience the pain or if we find the pleasure. It's already too late. The limbic system in the end, a fucking. 

Monkey riding an elephant, you know. 

You can't just say like yo, hit me up with some free serotonin, it never be like that. 

These people at Goldman Sachs been working like there's no tomorrow, or better yet, like there is only tomorrow. 

They have the leeches on the corpse and they're opening up the veins. It's much better to be a vagabond who takes ecstasy up the ass and put soy sauce in the bath instead of bath salts. because they ran out. All the while eating Chinese takeout that floats in the bathtub. 

Be on the run with your Capri Sun. 

Because what these people don't know. Is that your brain doesn't know but your heart can tell. 

Gotta love The Baroque end of hyper individualism. 

It's literally better to Doom scroll. This is not Demi abusive. This is abusive abusive. 

And these hyper Capitalist managerial class bosses that usually just like come back to the Shaggy defence; It wasn't me. 

Chapter 4 Contorno 

Zucchine alla poverella

Cross country lines. Olive oil and butter. 

I think it's really time to end the self-depreciating humour. It's much more fun to make absurd jokes that are self-confident in a way. 

Accept the Absurd, the I want to die Twitter joke has itself died. It is really 2014 and in a not such a healthy way. 

I'll be the king of your Castle. There's more options than ever. Just pick one. You're good at huh Orr so and so? Don't follow your passion, your passion will follow what you're good at so, nobody is born with a passion for tax auditing, yet there are people who are good at it. Make your life absurd, it will soon become your passion. 

But I'm not talking some British humour absurdity. No. No, it's again like my previous episode, It should be artisanal absurdity.

A Postmodern calzone,

Chicken durum with basil 

Rhizomatic Risotto 

You name it. 

Don't give up on life. Don’t ever get a dog and make sure you don’t pet a burning dog.

To quote Mark Blyth

“But here's the what to this year's wonderful thing about the United States and it's the old Mel Brooks line on this one. It's good to be the king but because the United States is a barbell economy ever picked up a barbell on a gym the reason you can lift a lot of Weights because of perfectly balanced on both sides and you know, 

This is the only barbell economy, when things are going well everywhere people come here and borrow dollars and put them aside because you get higher a time when things go to hell in a hand-basket there you liquidate everything turn into dollars and bring it back home.

What ever happens people come to America to make money, on the way up as well as on the way down. :

They expect the American economy to grow 8 percent this year. 

Be a barbell.

I think by far the best weekends are chilling, with a touch of productivity and a hint of bitch. 

I am not in favour of the Belgian weekends were you wake up on a Saturday. You think it's Monday because you partied all week.

Even worse  to me is the Dutch weekend. We need to do things in the house, go out hiking, get a head start on the week, ect, ect.  

The absolute Pinnacle of neurosis is by far the Danish weekend, were one allows oneself a restrained celebration.

One boiled egg. Rigorous cleaning. Hang laundry consisting out of t-shirts in a gradient from white to grey.

This is not event about some optimisation bullshit. 

No.

This Is a dinner table that has to be swiped with a cloth while the guests are still eating. 

Wait, is this happening? 

What time is it? It is 2 a.m. Okay, look. 

I must admit. I love people that are: like stop interrupting me while I'm interrupting you. 

You're per definition niche. And Niche is the best you can get at this moment. 

Welcome to the Matrix 4. 

A theatre of cruelty Made up out of stretchy days. 

Where it's easy to be handsome, but hard to be hot.

Most people have been on 1% in airplane mode for a while now. Surfing on apps where Doom scrolling is literally the business model. 

Most people are probably studiously avoiding

To become too self-aware, and rightfully so. Character development can be entertaining for others, but quite the adventure for thyself. 

Being gaslit by a weather app every day says it's sunny, but it's actually very much raining. 

I think negative thinking is next level big brain. Only Autodidacts are free. 

It would be interesting to have a workshop on the power of negative thinking it's going to be terrible. 

But at least you'll be insane afterwards. Upon completion of the course you will feel the data is in I'm ready to go on a new autistic tangent. 

What time is it? 2 a.m? 

Thanks but I'm well aware of the fucking time. 

Most art has aged like a fine cheese in a humid basement. I think it's time to invent something crappy super fast. 

Let's see if there's anybody d’accord with me. 

I feel right now truly stuck between a German and an American System where German the system is: Working with trade unions and apprenticeships and incremental improvements. So this is how you get for instance Mercedes or  a BMW and You just basically start the company and then 200 years later. You have the perfect car which almost has nothing to do with Innovation. It's just like every time they like to take an ounce of the fucking thing and they make it better and better and better. Where's the American system is much more based on Innovation. But only in the worlds of bits, I guess so you take something like technologies that are invented by the military then they stick them into a shiny box and the whole everybody thinks like wow, that's an amazing iPhone. 

So Steve Jobs is a genius how many of the technology the six critical Technologies and ask them how many of them did Steve invent?

Touch screens? who invented touch screens United States Air Force, taxpayer dollars. Called lodestar TCP IP DARPA

secure Communications in the event of a nuclear attack. Backbone of the internet. Well, so we got GPS United States Navy global positioning satellites. You seeing a pattern here taxpayers paid for all this stuff. Where's your Equity? Sure. You didn't get it. We just gave it to the private sector because entrepreneurs are so awesome. Yeah when they put in a shiny box and we all go aww, that’s cute. 

That has now stalled a bit. In a sense that like the other day somebody else told me like yo, I bought a new iPhone. I'm like, I couldn't be less interested brah, I feel that the iPhone hasn't fundamentally changed in years nor like getting a new smartphone used to be an event and that is in no way an event anymore. 

But has it stalled or was hit a scam all along?

Feel our subject is not is not so much like a puzzle that fights back, some cool hacker type shit. 

You see in spy movies basically a combination between a stress ball a rubrics cube and a squirming octopus in the form of algorithm with a small consciousness. 

Yes I distinct between big and small consciousness.

I feel it's more a collage of puzzles that is like spread over the floor. 

Where the pieces don't fit and don't colours match. 

Yet you don't have the tools to create new pieces. So it kind of becomes this like 

Minestrone of elements not truly forming a soup.

You can pour the best 4 hour stock over the veg but usually does not really lead to synthesis.

Lately I'm quite obsessed with this idea of the trilemma, 

trilemma is of triangle of problems, where you can connect two of the corners, but not the third one. 

So you will have to make a choice. You'll have to drop something.

The trilemma comes about in our work quite often.

Unlike a dilemma which has two solutions a trilemma offers three equals solutions to a complex problem. 

Usually this is in economics, but they're also in daily life. I think a good example is sort of the triangle between money, time and social life. 

You can't have all three you will have to choose. 

If you do manage to get all three, Either you think God or you're a maniac. I think the same goes for quick success and progress. Progress Disappoints the short run but then surprises in the long run. You're not a lottery ticket, and won’t get the cake for free.

That means that if you really work at a problem, you're probably later on will still be confused but on a higher level. 

Either that or you get instant permanent brain damage. 

Again, I would like to welcome you to the Matrix 4, and one on thing is sure as shit the matrix 5, 6, 7, and 8 are well underway.  

Any person with an analytical mind but a cheerful light demeanor is right now stuck in a trilemma between the horns of a bull and the Horn of a unicorn. All three of you laying face down on the bed.  

It begs the question. Why is everybody suddenly doing these Trends reports? 

You see Trends report meme Pages. You see a lot of graphs also, like being cancelled by infographics has become a meme in and of itself. I am wondering is this because people are super future orientated? Is it because they're stuck on this Fukuyamish eternal now? Or veering back into modernism?

This is an American thing where people try to commodify every single last bit of fucking life, by predicting the market, rather than the European version of making a prediction in private and then bitterly claiming victory long after the battle is over. I think this is also what is crazy about these podcasts where people basically just read Twitter into a mic supplemented with some lukewarm takes in between, and then ask good money for that on Patreon. This is something that Europeans could never do. I think they're too ashamed or too self-conscious and they care too much about like an old system of growth and Gatekeepers. What essentially has happened over the last let's say 15 years and I refuse to use the word democratisation here, is a the opening of a transatlantic rift between gatekeepers putting tariffs on content.  and hive mind content mininig. 

To me the thing I look back on with the most hilarity in my mind is the Twitter-Facebook prediction that they would bring democracy to the world through tweeting and posting. 

we went from growth and gatekeeping to a hive mind. 

Free for all 

Why is the top comment always funny? Simple : there is always somebody funny in the audience, 

That makes the best joke. The audience is infinitely funnier than a comedian if they would have given equal preptime and  equal playtime. Besides most Comedians 

are fucking unfunny. 

Look at what's happening in Europe

Here we still depend on Gatekeepers.

Germans still want to do an apprenticeship. They're still want to work somewhere and they don't dare to go into the free for all. But it's not working for anyone else either:

The free-for-all is more random than ever. 

So The Gatekeepers are still like huddled around their Gates trying to protect the last sort of sense of European glamour in a last ditch effort. They're sitting along the Coté de Azur of the internet, I won’t name what it is. They are hoping for some sun but in actuality they are siting there with fucking rain streaming in their face Smelling their Breath, building up in the narrow spaces between their mouths and their masks, After a typical European breakfast consisting out of an industrial cigarettes and black coffee brought up to temperature with cold water. 

Stackzibit K; life on a laptop.

On the other side we have white-with-a-greenish-hue teeth tech bro liberals. 

Have been skimming off the hive min