What Patrick McKenzie thinks about America
Software engineer and writer, known online as patio11. Ran the small software business Bingo Card Creator and Starfighter, then worked at Stripe; writes about the mechanics of money at Bits about Money and wrote for years at Kalzumeus about careers, negotiation and the business of software.
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3 dated positions, 2012 to 2024, in their own words. Our reading of what Patrick McKenzie has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingA US deposit account is a credit product, and cannot be made otherwise without breaking it.
Their wordsFor one thing, typical deposit accounts in the U.S. are actually credit products. It's baked in and can't be baked out without making them unfit for purpose.
↗Debanking (and Debunking?)bitsaboutmoney.com 3rd of 5 in this piece
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Our readingAmericans are not, as a routine matter, cut off from the financial system for their politics.
Their wordsThis does not happen as a matter of routine in the United States.
↗Debanking (and Debunking?)bitsaboutmoney.com 5th of 5 in this piece
- 13 years earlier
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Their wordsClose to 100% is subject to the results of salary negotiations. Thus, your salary negotiations are probably going to be the most important financial decisions you will ever make. We socialize middle class Americans to go into them unprepared, demotivated, and fearful of success.
↗Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valuedkalzumeus.com 1st of 4 in this piece