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Do the Manifold staff know what the actual New Deal was?
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resolved May 2
Yes
Heard of it, but no sense of details
Heard of it, & dislike it
No

The Manifold leadership have declared that the shift to straight-up gambling is a "New Deal for Manifold."

The real New Deal, of course, was a sweeping set of legislation & programs, meant to improve human welfare, reduce inequality, & protect the vulnerable. The changes to Manifold are meant to...improve revenue on Manifold.

Do they know what the New Deal was? Or do they have no idea? Or do they know what it is, & decided to mock it?

EDIT: Salient response here from one of the founders - seems "Heard of it, & dislike it" is the only correct response, now.

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It took FDR eight years to fail to achieve what Emperor Hirohito accomplished by accident in one.

@MichaelWheatley I'm honestly surprised to see such intense 1940s Republicanism among staff & badged users. I suppose I shouldn't be

@MichaelWheatley That's a take I haven't heard before. Can you elaborate? What did Hirohito accomplish by accident?

@houstonEuler Usually WWII is considered the endpoint of the Great Depression because all the arms production served as stimulus spending. The joke is that in that graph you can see unemployment in the U.S. basically stable until it craters in 1941 right around the Pearl Harbour attacks.

@MichaelWheatley Poe's Law really had me wondering.

Yes, and FDR was a dictator that repeatedly failed to get us out of the depression, left a legacy of bad social programs & government waste, had literal communists in his cabinet, and was played like a fiddle by Stalin.

Herbert Hoover was the better man.

@JamesGrugett Is this sarcasm?

honestly, reading this from a manifold cofounder turns me more off the platform than the pivot

@pyrylium The exact opposite for me. It is like with Musk. Some like him for his beliefs, the lefties hate him. Though I miss the times when the general rule was to leave politics out of the workplace.

@JamesGrugett Yup, Hoover did a fantastic job getting us out of that depression.

in time, all historically meaningful political actions are reduced to catchy slogans for VC-hungry startups