Saw these linked at FT Alphaville, pretty funny. Series of tweets from an Anton Troynikov.

Anton Troynikov? @atroyn

Things that happen in Silicon Valley and also the Soviet Union: 

- waiting years to receive a car you ordered, to find that it's of poor workmanship and quality 

- promises of colonizing the solar system while you toil in drudgery day in, day out

- living five adults to a two room apartment 

- being told you are constructing utopia while the system crumbles around you

- 'totally not illegal taxi' taxis by private citizens moonlighting to make ends meet 

- everything slaved to the needs of the military-industrial complex

- mandatory workplace political education 

- productivity largely falsified to satisfy appearance of sponsoring elites

- deviation from mainstream narrative carries heavy social and political consequences

- networked computers exist but they're really bad

- Henry Kissinger visits sometimes for some reason

- elite power struggles result in massive collateral damage, sometimes purges 

- failures are bizarrely upheld as triumphs

- otherwise extremely intelligent people just turning the crank because it's the only way to get ahead

- the plight of the working class is discussed mainly by people who do no work

- the United States as a whole is depicted as evil by default

- the currency most people are talking about is fake and worthless

- the economy is centrally planned, using opaque algorithms not fully understood by their users

7/6/2018 10:29:47 PM

7/6/2018 11:03:47 PM

Funny cause it’s true!

The shine fading from Silicon Valley’s exterior has to be the only good thing that’s happened in 2017-2018

7/7/2018 8:38:50 AM

^wat

https://www.atkearney.com/2018-global-cities-report

7/10/2018 10:08:26 PM