Forging into ...? Schwab!

Charles Schwab is buying Forge Global, a fintech that serves as a private company stock exchange.

Forge went public in 2022 via a Motive Capital Partners SPAC.  It has private equity underwriter (PEU) roots according to the company website:

Founded in 2015, Motive Partners is a specialist private equity platform

 TechGod companies proliferate Forge's offerings:

And a number of these companies are flat out creepy.  Shein has childlike sex dolls.

The AI swerve into the porn lane caught many by surprise.  OpenAI's upcoming ChatXXX, xAI's digital sex talk bot using employee biometric data and Meta's engorging on adult content should have been forseeable, given their founders consistent creepiness and seeming inability to connect with carbon based people.  

Schwab, the investor for the little people, is going big, private and creepy.  I was thinking of reactivating my account but realize they have nothing for me.  

Update 11-7-25:  The Burning Platform wrote:  

It’s the .01% globalist billionaire class who are mainly to blame for the economic shitstorm brewing on the horizon.

That's the group politicians Red & Blue have catered to over the last two decades.  It includes private equity underwriters (PEU), TechGods and CryptoBros.  Increasingly, more elected officials and key government officials are one (a PEU/TechGod/CryptBro).  For that, all of us regular folk pay.....

....(only) a few hundred fall into the category of psychopaths in suits. Yes, they live in gated palaces with ample security forces, but the common folk of this country own over 300 million firearms.

I much prefer voters elect officials who will take back the levers of government from policy making billionaires.  The odds of that are extremely low, but one can hope.  The alternative is absolutely frightening.