Scott Galloway is a bestselling author and professor of marketing at NYU Stern.
The following is a recent blog post, republished with permission, that originally ran on his blog, No Mercy / No Malice.
In it, Galloway discusses the impact Elon Musk has on cryptocurrency, the auto industry, and the free market.
I often write about platforms (iOS, Amazon Marketplace, etc.) as they are a source of value creation and power. The platform of unprecedented wealth creation is the free market of capitalism. The global adoption of markets has corresponded with the greatest expansion of prosperity in human history. But similar to tech platforms, free markets are neither naturally occurring nor immune to collapse. The free market can fail.
Time really flies as it's been two years since Game Of Thrones went off the air and exactly 10 years since we discovered Westeros and the fantasy universe for the first time.
Martin Compston as Steve Arnott
Credit: BBC
For fans of convoluted, self-mythologising television filmed in Belfast, the underwhelming Line of Duty finale will have brought a crushing sense of déjà vu. We’ve been here before only with Mother of Dragons rather than Mother of God references. And with Jon Snow mooching into the great beyond instead of Kate and Steve heading to the pub.
Jed Mercurio, a feisty sort who loves a challenge and has proved willing to deploy a four letter c-word that isn’t “CHIS” when tackling critics, has outdone himself. He’s produced a season closer that echoes, occasionally beat-for-beat, the rise and fall of Game of Thrones. AC-12, it turns out, is the new Westeros. And in the end, Ted Hastings v H was revealed to be every bit as massive a waste of time as Jon Snow against the White Walkers.
We ve seen it happen before, most notably and perhaps most painfully, in the final season of Game of Thrones. Cast your minds back to the utter disappointment when you realised that the vast majority of the plotlines set up in Westeros would amount to nothing, and the Night King would (spoiler) die after doing very little except looking super smug all the time.
Having said that, I really don t think the Line of Duty finale was as bad as some people are making it out to be. Did we want the fourth man to be Carmichael or Osborne? Sure.
Was it an underwhelming reveal to have the bumbling Buckells revealed as the Keyser Söze of the whole thing? Maybe.
It was always a possibility, that creator and writer Jed Mercurio had backed himself into a corner, and all of the hype built over the series would never be satisfied no matter the ending.
We ve seen it happen before, most notably and perhaps most painfully, in the final season of Game of Thrones. Cast your minds back to the utter disappointment when you realised that the vast majority of the plot lines set up in Westeros would amount to nothing, and the Night King would (spoiler) die after doing very little except looking super f cking smug all the time.