Billionaires and Their Chaos

Disruption destabilizes institutions that might keep the rich in check

A recent screed from Prachee Avasthi, the CSO at Arcadia Science, delivers readers into a strange land where users are disrespected, technology billionaires — like her boss, Jed McCaleb, who made billions via the Mt. Gox crypto exchange and eDonkey2000 — are portrayed as inherently superior, and science works better if it is allowed to trend towards chaos.

  • Avasthi doesn’t seem destined to replace her keyboard any time soon, this being only the third time she’s posted since starting her Substack in October. Hot out of the gates with two posts that month, she’s been resting ever since, I guess.
    • Her colleague and McCaleb’s wife, Seemay Chou, another apparent science washout, has decried publishing in a similarly sporadic fashion, writing two whole posts since June on a Substack for another institute of theirs.
      • I just don’t know how they keep up this breakneck writing pace . . .
      • Also, why so many tax havens?

Avasthi is noticing some things, and is aghast at what she sees:

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