<nettime> A short appraisal

[Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com>]

Not to disturb high intellectual discourses on nettime, a short 
interlude with numbers and reality.

IMF suggests that a typical collateral for major loans should be around 
60% book value or 30% market value. The Republic of Ecuador just got 
$1.1B loan using Julian Assange as collateral 
(https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-46395063 ), which 
places Mr. Assange's market value at about $330M.

That's a lot of money, and a possible business model for unfunded 
progressives: prop up a major irritant to wealthy entity, then sell it 
yourself.

This capitalism thing is f*cking fantastic!

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