The Mimetic Market

Why I'm Bullish on Rivalry

No need to rehash the zillion takes on the developing situation in the stock market. If you need some background, this piece by Jason Koebler in Vice is one of the better intros I’ve seen.

One of the self-proclaimed ‘degenerates’ in /WallStreetBets is calling the name of the future movie “The Big Long,” starring Luke Wilson.

Who doesn’t like to see bullies get beat up by underdogs? This will make one hell of an entertaining film at $AMC.

I imagine Michael Lewis is already frothing at the mouth for the book deal. Personally, I’d rather see the book written by u/DeepFuckingValue, the anonymous Reddit user who started the whole thing. (On that note, I’d also rather see the crew from Reddit band together to make the movie, too—rather than a Hollywood job, with an agenda.)

But the Twitter Ban wasn’t really about Twitter, and the GameStop saga isn’t really about the stock market.

Those whose knee-jerk reaction is to become fixated on legislation and app fixes and prohibitions on trading c…