Pynchon doesn't pretend to be anything. His material mostly consists of low culture, obscenity, and engineering nerd stuff he finds interesting. He lived through the beat and hippie countercultures and draws from them for his characters and settings.
I think people get hung up on the difficulty of his writing. He writes word puzzles and he's having as much fun with it as he can.
People like his work because they have fun untangling the obscure mess he puts on the page.
Businesses don't pay for costs solely with revenue, they also use cash from loans. Revenue is used to pay off loans, so higher interest rates mean loans become more expensive. To maintain constant loan repayment costs through a projected year, the total amount of those loans has to go down. With lower cash from loans, costs have to be cut and payroll is one of them.
I think this partially explains why everyone is doing layoffs regardless of revenue performance: they all have to adapt to the same conditions of higher interest rates.
I think people get hung up on the difficulty of his writing. He writes word puzzles and he's having as much fun with it as he can.
People like his work because they have fun untangling the obscure mess he puts on the page.