Re:The PayPal Mafia is taking over America's government
by monospaced on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @09:26AM
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The economist articles are unsigned: https://medium.economist.com/why-are-the-economists-writers-...
Re:The PayPal Mafia is taking over America's government
by hnburnsy on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @09:27AM
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Thank you for that!
Re:The PayPal Mafia is taking over America's government
by gilbertbw on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @09:26AM
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The economist doesn’t do bylines. See https://medium.economist.com/why-are-the-economists-writers-...
Re:The PayPal Mafia is taking over America's government
by hnburnsy on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @09:29AM
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Thanks do they make any distinction between news, opinion, and editorialization?
Re:The PayPal Mafia is taking over America's government
by tylerchilds on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @09:27AM
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the paypal mafia is core alumni of early paypal, not paypal the software or the employees of today.
Re:The PayPal Mafia is taking over America's government
by hnburnsy on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @09:34AM
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I get that but does it help their point or is it just a good excuses to use the term mafia?
Re:The PayPal Mafia is taking over America's government
by amyames on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @09:47AM
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it’s common (however charged or derisive) vernacular.
the name stuck. most people can’t name more than 2-3 people in the “PayPal mafia” but they know the term “PayPal mafia.”
Re:The PayPal Mafia is taking over America's government
by tylerchilds on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @09:54AM
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i wouldn’t slight the author for using the terminology of the wikipedia page
we all know the group the term refers to, calling them anything else would be confusing. welcome to the club.
Anyhoo, not sure why PayPal is important here, I haven't seen anything proposed that will directly help PayPal the company, in fact, any crypto deregulation hurts PayPal.