{"id":5761,"date":"2022-05-18T12:37:59","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T10:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/18\/techscape-how-musk-and-crypto-bros-get-away-with-it\/"},"modified":"2022-05-18T12:37:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T10:37:59","slug":"techscape-how-musk-and-crypto-bros-get-away-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/18\/techscape-how-musk-and-crypto-bros-get-away-with-it\/","title":{"rendered":"TechScape: How Musk and crypto bros get away with it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s newsletter: Just like Donald Trump\u2019s political rise, Tesla\u2019s CEO and firms like Tether win by simply not playing by the same rules as everyone else<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ablink.editorial.theguardian.com\/ss\/c\/TBl-lE0k4WbTlFRn6v-lQXxTpTslqnvUsR2ofAkC00vqkHXqakTSxrykj9mrdACFo11SPMvm9ONAti2JcHBqUgcduObToxycReEYHcTAh6nov_u_7l464yKkl5CZpPeg-CqG3ueb-8UiDZ4dOkhK_xu6BZysaGtGOA-w2_0KTqLsMBLqZrcGelEg-7T5C6DRfMSsX1Wcyrv2RlHjbzIGx0ePxMD7meIXmznkqCFxtrflV_YvxDV9cqXgzdq7c2-9qYTW0MyIMCG7p9sc7wIKCg\/3ha\/N7031ZxvS8Cv2AmB8PHP-g\/h27\/towm4HqYM1UtQe3kzAkaoAWT_zh9HyZuTvPyJCk6JeE\">Don\u2019t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One of the biggest advantages you can have in life is the superpower of \u201cgetting away with shit\u201d. If you manage to play by different rules from the people you\u2019re competing against, you can appear unstoppable.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re good enough at it, you can reveal that even deeply foundational rules of the system are, in practice, just guidelines, a gentleman\u2019s agreement, or just politeness. The rise of Donald Trump in US politics, for instance, led to half a decade of commentators insisting he couldn\u2019t do things that he, in fact, could and did do. (Depending on how you interact with politics, I can direct you to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2017\/may\/12\/donald-trump-has-no-shame-that-makes-him-dangerous\">this comment piece<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/id-like-to-see-ol-donny-trump-wriggle-his-way-out-of-this-jam\">this viral tweet<\/a> for an elaboration of that argument.)<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/may\/18\/techscape-elon-musk-twitter-cryptocurrency-tether\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/298e742e15a2fa37b48f6bcc0466fd1e6c2e720e\/0_267_4000_2400\/master\/4000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e489bdd86bdae70dad87196ba9872825\" title=\"TechScape: How Musk and crypto bros get away with it\" \/>In this week\u2019s newsletter: Just like Donald Trump\u2019s political rise, Tesla\u2019s CEO and firms like Tether win by simply not playing by the same rules as everyone else<br \/>\nDon\u2019t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here<br \/>\nOne of the biggest advantages you can have in life is the superpower of \u201cgetting away with shit\u201d. If you manage to play by different rules from the people you\u2019re competing against, you can appear unstoppable.<br \/>\nIf you\u2019re good enough at it, you can reveal that even deeply foundational rules of the system are, in practice, just guidelines, a gentleman\u2019s agreement, or just politeness. The rise of Donald Trump in US politics, for instance, led to half a decade of commentators insisting he couldn\u2019t do things that he, in fact, could and did do. (Depending on how you interact with politics, I can direct you to this comment piece or this viral tweet for an elaboration of that argument.) Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s newsletter: Just like Donald Trump\u2019s political rise, Tesla\u2019s CEO and firms like Tether win by simply not playing by the same rules as everyone else Don\u2019t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here One of the biggest advantages you can have in life is the superpower &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/18\/techscape-how-musk-and-crypto-bros-get-away-with-it\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TechScape: How Musk and crypto bros get away with it<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5761"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}