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I feel like Worldcom got a modest amount of press coverage at the time but probably would have gotten a lot more if it hadn’t been front-run by the Enron scandal.


Why are these always one letter off from what they actually are? Worldcom-> World-con. Madoff -> Made-off


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Normative determinism is the term for that


*Nominative Determinism. Named after John Nominative, who first proposed the effect.


My phone must have autocorrected. Ty and good joke :)


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