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The Loneliness Is the Product
Read more . . . →Andrew Tate pulls in a hundred and eighty-four million dollars a year from a single subscription platform selling online courses to young men about how to get rich. The business model writes itself: find a twenty-year-old who feels like the world left him behind, tell him it’s women’s fault and the system’s fault and everyone’s fault except the people charging him $49.99 a month, then sell him a subscription. A new report from Reset Tech calls the manosphere what it actually is — a multibillion-dollar grift economy. Not a movement, not a philosophy — a sales funnel that runs on...
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Trump's Name Is Getting Etched in Marble at Penn Station. You're Paying For It.
Read more . . . →Penn Station has been a disaster for decades. Cramped, sweaty, falling apart — New Yorkers have been begging for a renovation forever. Now they’re getting one: $8 billion, raised ceilings, two new entrances. And “President Donald J. Trump” etched in marble next to a presidential seal, gold railings, columns, and escalators throughout. Of course. This is a public train station. The busiest in the country. Hundreds of thousands of commuters a day, most of them not billionaires. Design renderings leaked this week showing a monument to the sitting president built into a transit hub that working people depend on to...
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