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Ganz says that "a normal guy might roll their eyes at the camera fixating on Taylor so much", but somebody toted up the screen time devoted to Taylor Swift during the divisional game (against the Bills), and it was ... 25 seconds? In a 3-hour broadcast? I feel that a normal guy might take this into account too.

Also, that was the most-watched divisional game in history, with 50.4M viewers. Even the sub-normal guys might work out that it doesn't take orbital mind control lasers to make the broadcasters chase more of the same.

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Why can't a Nazi bar run by Elon Musk be profitable? Probably not at a $53b capital cost, but as a niche service, why not?

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You are probably right. Stuff like that stays profitable in the conventional accounting sense. Its true costs, social costs, remain hidden. We know, for example, the slavery was a profitable institution in that conventional accounting sense. Anything profitable doesn't go away on its own, unless it is competed out by something similar. The only way it goes away is if it is disbarred or outlawed institutionally. The emancipation proclamation, for example. What we haven't figured out yet is what is the institutional equivalent of that for today's Nazi bars.

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Today is jobs day. That 'jobs plentiful vs jobs hard to get' chart is good nourishment with coffee. Prepares you for a test, coming in about 15 minutes. Thanks! See what happens when you relate that chart, net of those two series preferably, to participation rates.

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