We Work (So You Don’t Have To)

Recorded live this morning as the transcript was released, this episode of GLoP is as fresh as a just mowed lawn. Wait, are newly mowed lawns fresh? OK, how about laundry just out of the dryer? Nah, too on the nose. OK, forget about the fresh metaphor. In this episode, the GLoP-meisters (that’s Jonah Goldberg, Rob Long, and John Podhoretz) cover the goings on at WeWork and other suspect internet based businesses (ahem), a look at the state of the TV business, and yes, some Rank Punditry® on that phone call to Ukraine.

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  1. MISTER BITCOIN Inactive
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    kedavis (View Comment):

    Robert Dammers (View Comment):

    The most bizarre thing about WeWork is that Regus have been using the rational part of their business model profitably for *decades*. Offices plus IT infrastructure (including videoconferencing before that was ubiquitous) rented on a short term basis, an Office base for the highly Mobile. Just without the booze tastings or the happy hour (food and drink are someone else’s core business if course). I couldn’t work out what the real USP was.

    Maybe WeWork is Regus for (wannabe) yuppies, millenials, etc?

    Or maybe someone just wanted to “invent” the same thing again to get in on the investment capital and pocket a bunch of it, before it all collapsed?

     

    weWork is an expensive overvalued overhyped immature version of Regus

     

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    Robert Dammers (View Comment):

    The most bizarre thing about WeWork is that Regus have been using the rational part of their business model profitably for *decades*. Offices plus IT infrastructure (including videoconferencing before that was ubiquitous) rented on a short term basis, an Office base for the highly Mobile. Just without the booze tastings or the happy hour (food and drink are someone else’s core business if course). I couldn’t work out what the real USP was.

    BINGO

    also you have smaller companies doing the same thing like ‘breather’ – renting out space for meetings, pilates/yoga sessions, physical therapy, etc.

     

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    Daniel Sterman (View Comment):

    Henry Castaigne (View Comment):

    Is anyone else fine with using foreign governments for oppo research?

    No, I’m not fine with it. Not in general, and especially not in when it involves telling the president of an allied country, “Either you help me get reelected or I’ll stand aside and let an invading army kill your citizens.”

    The IRS thing was awful. This is evil.

    I just don’t see the harm in asking Ukraine to check this out if there is a legitimate reason to research it.

    And that would be fine, if:

    A) There were a legitimate reason to research it, which there isn’t; and

    B) It were handled through official, long-established law enforcement channels, rather than through the president’s personal lawyer.

     

    the IRS shenanigans by Obama and Lois Lerner is much worse… definitely impeachable

     

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