Your favorite brands got worse on purpose. I track the PE and conglomerate consolidation behind it. Plus a ledger of who got gutted and who's still good. Read👇
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Ice cream has a federal definition: at least 10% milkfat, and a gallon must weigh at least 4.5 pounds.
“Frozen dairy dessert” has none. US sales doubled from $319M in 2022 to $652M by late 2025. It’s now 1 in 11 tubs sold.
On how to tell the difference.
Link below 👇
This lady is incredible. V curious abt her audience demographics… is she converting call her daddy listeners? Or is she only watched by tradwife types?
It's almost always an ignitor... or a fuse. By simply understanding the handful of common failure points on each of the systems in your house, you can make yourself immune to this kind of rampant opportunism.
My parent's gas furnace quite working so they called the local HVAC shop that originally installed the furnace, thinking it might be still under warranty.
The repairman said it wasn't under warranty and to replace the part it would cost $850.00 plus a service call of $75.00
They declined the work and paid the service call but the repairman would not tell them what part was bad.
Parents called me. The furnace has self diagnostics on it and the light indicated that the ignitor had failed.
I installed a new one, it cost $22.00. It had one screw and one connection, only took 5 minutes to install.
Total time for diagnosis to repair and verification of proper operation was less than a half hour and I am not an HVAC guy!
Yet the HVAC company wanted to charge my parents $850.00.
Now I am not against a business trying to earn money but this is robbery in my book
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This is incredible
After almost 10 years of work corporateownershipdata.com now makes available all publicly available ownership records of 7,156 publicly traded firms, not just the S&P 500, including dual-class shares.
The Rose Main Reading Room at NY public library is dope. And free. Why do I work in coffee shops again?
I have an entirely free day in New York this Friday. The possibilities are endless.
Places to see? People to meet? I am radically open to new experiences
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There's a really important question here. Is it possible to bring down consumer prices without a recession?
Welcome to the age of permanent high inflation.
Yes, the Iran war hasn't helped, but today's inflation is a structural result of deglobalization, and likely to be with us into the 2030s, regardless of which party is in power.
unherd.com/2026/10/why-democ…
One of the better articulations that I’ve seen of the problem I have decided to dedicate my career to
The money system needs to change.
PE makes money by rolling up existing businesses, firing everyone who built them, and replacing them with low-cost labor. Then they sell to an even bigger PE firm that needs to park money somewhere stable.
VC makes money by betting that another VC or investor will want your shares in 5 years or so. Most VC is gambling on a popularity contest.
Both, for the most part, abstract away everything tangible about a business.
We’re still early in the reindustrialize movement. Early enough that most investors haven’t had the rude awakening that you can’t roll up manufacturing the way you roll up HVAC companies, and you can’t expect manufacturing companies to scale like SaaS.
We need a new funding model that values reality. People are irreplaceable, location matters, and long-term outlooks are necessary.
What does this kind of investment model look like?
Need to know what a diff or a driveshaft is for this to have any meaning.
Kids used to be able to look at the underside of a hot wheels and ask “what’s that?”
Sad part is that most dads today would be unable to answer.
Very occasionally, SNL captures the true zeitgeist.
worseonpurpose.com/p/why-is-…
