alt Hacker News25M isn’t even that much money. Not only are they whores, they’re cheap whores.
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It’s a lot of money for a “what have you done for me lately?” scenario
Like, this is opex
A whore doesn't have to charge any given john very much when they can service a large number of them.
In this context they're not the whores, they're the johns. Trump / the PAC would be the whores, but what else is new?
It's a loss-leader. Once the patronage system has solidly taken hold, then they raise the prices. Our only consolation is that the fascist-supporting techbros are going to be victims of their own enshittification dynamic - they think they're paying customers, but they're actually the product. The autocracy will continue to increase its meddling to maintain its own political legitimacy. Moldbug's enlightened benevolent monarch who needn't care about politics is a pipe dream.
Quite tangential, but this reminded me of a line from Human Target:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6tqvzt?start=872&mute=fal...
"I'm sorry, you... You think I'm a prostitute?"
looks at offered cash
"A $40 prostitute?"