Here is another truth: because of baseball cards, dots, the focus on designing the machine, finding the right people, they can actually afford to randomly fire people. It's weird to see it work.
I think he got that Italy thing right early. He is sort of right about a lot of what he says even though it sounds a bit extreme and not sure in practice.
Looks to me Bridgewater just didn't want to pay out another million-dollar "settlement" to some extorting b******. Oh well they will be fine, probably landing another even higher paying job.