Comment by jmuguy

2 years ago

I am really interested in the content of this post, and I assume other posts from the author. But his writing style is extremely long winded.

For instance, this is somehow only two sentences.

  It is a fee, ultimately paid by the card-accepting business, which gets sliced up between various parties in the credit card ecosystem to incentivize them to put their logos in the wallets and on the phones of well-heeled customers and increase the amount they spend and the frequency with which they spend it. (In industry, we sometimes distinguish interchange—which mostly goes to the issuing bank—and scheme fees—which mostly go to the credit card brand itself—but as interchange is much larger, let’s just call them both interchange for simplicity.)

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abhayhegde  2 years ago

Agreed. I thought I was having a bad day unable to comprehend the content, but the style is off putting.

bogtog  2 years ago

This gentleman discusses topics that I think I'd be interested in, but like the half dozen times I've tried to read this guy, I've just lost my motivation so quickly. I feel some arrogance in his long-windedness. Is there any parallel to make with The Last Psychiatrist?

kenty  2 years ago

Came here just to write the same. I've squandered to find an explanation because I absolutely enjoy the subject. Perhaps it's because I'm not a native speaker and generally have non-native speakers around so I don't understand some of the metaphors, perhaps it's because I'm just not used to reading these kinds of long sentences anymore, or perhaps it's just not my kind of beer. I really don't know.

kccqzy  2 years ago

On the other hand, I really enjoy both reading and writing long sentences, as long as they are logically easy to follow, for they exude a certain eloquence and elegance that elevates the style and, most importantly, refines my audience by filtering away potential readers who had not had sufficient high school language classes to get used to understanding such long sentences effortlessly, which, this being a matter of personal expression rather than instruction, I certainly have the right to.