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Buying Futures, Renting the Past: How Speculation and Nostalgia Became the Economy

Kyla Scanlon · 12 Feb 2026

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  1. Speculation (sports betting, crypto, prediction markets, all of the above) and nostalgia are two sides of the same coin. One future-facing, one backwards-looking.
  2. It's less about whether not AI is real and here and more about whether or not the capital cycle is sustainable.

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