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Capital doesn’t chase disruption; it chases the familiar, in new packaging.

Capital doesn’t chase disruption; it chases the familiar, in new packaging.

Most funding does not flow toward bold ideas—it flows toward what already works, repackaged. True progress demands divergence, not iteration.

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Apr 10, 2025
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It’s easy to believe that capital is a force for change. That it rewards originality, brave thinking, and unconventional vision. But in reality, capital is a mechanism of preservation. It doesn’t fund what threatens the system—it funds what can be absorbed by it. The most successful ideas in the eyes of capital are not those that rewrite the rules, but those that reframe them. The game must stay the same. Only the packaging changes.

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