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We Have Always Lived in the GameStop
Message-board stock-pumping is nothing new. The question is what to do about it.
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When Prince wrote “1999” back in 1982, he could hardly have imagined the song-reference-industrial complex it would spawn, the decade upon decade of deadline-harried writers using it as the go-to descriptor for “[THING] behaving like it’s [YEAR].” It’s beyond cliche.