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    1. …in reply to @mayazi
      @mayazi "velvet rope"/zero-sum social capital : late-capitalist marketing culture :: bootlicking : military-industrial complex and militarized policing
  1. …in reply to @by_caballero
    @mayazi tbh i personally use the phrase "velvet rope" as a synecdoche for how crypto/finance people (partic f/NYC) normalize the most nihilistic and destructive impulses that turned the entire culture industry into a branding exercise and speculative finance vehicle. #teamAdorno
    1. …in reply to @by_caballero
      @mayazi sometimes i remember that i got a PhD in comparative literature before working in the busch leagues derivative markets