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		octoberfranklin 27 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Private equity is killing private ownership: first... A decade ago it was the fringe lunatics. Now it's the only thing that seems to be "surfaced" and "boosted" in any of the infosilos like reddit/youtube/etc.

zahlman 27 days ago [–]

I don't think it's because there are more people on the fringes, so much as because there's so much more "surfacing" technology in use.

octoberfranklin 27 days ago | [–]

That was my point. Well that and the fact that the "surfacing" is very very aggressively selecting for this particular viewpoint, which used to be a fringe lunatic one.

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