"for this class, insight’s value varies inversely with the number of recipients.
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"for this class, insight’s value varies inversely with the number of recipients. And the ultimate flex is getting insider intel and shrugging"
This is a truly, truly outstanding essay. If you read one thing this week, I strongly implore you to make it this:
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"for this class, insight’s value varies inversely with the number of recipients. And the ultimate flex is getting insider intel and shrugging"
This is a truly, truly outstanding essay. If you read one thing this week, I strongly implore you to make it this:
"But the emails depict a group whose highest commitment is to their own permanence in the class that decides things. When principles conflict with staying in the network, the network wins."
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"But the emails depict a group whose highest commitment is to their own permanence in the class that decides things. When principles conflict with staying in the network, the network wins."
"Generally, you can’t read other people’s emails. Powerful people have private servers, I.T. staffs, lawyers. When you get a rare glimpse into how they actually think and view the world, what they actually are after, heed Maya Angelou: Believe them."
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"for this class, insight’s value varies inversely with the number of recipients. And the ultimate flex is getting insider intel and shrugging"
This is a truly, truly outstanding essay. If you read one thing this week, I strongly implore you to make it this:
@Remittancegirl I did read it, and yes. It's good, and I'm glad they wrote it and appreciate your sharing it.
It's odd. I don't find it surprising at all. I've deeply understood that there's always class warfare since childhood, and now I'm wondering how that came to be.
Thinking about it just now as I was writing this, I reread "The Little Match Girl," which I probably read for the first time when I was about six. I think I remember discussing it with.. my aunt? The story and that conversation may have been it.
It just occurred to me that my sharing this is very like the behavior described in the essay. Blecch.
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@Remittancegirl I did read it, and yes. It's good, and I'm glad they wrote it and appreciate your sharing it.
It's odd. I don't find it surprising at all. I've deeply understood that there's always class warfare since childhood, and now I'm wondering how that came to be.
Thinking about it just now as I was writing this, I reread "The Little Match Girl," which I probably read for the first time when I was about six. I think I remember discussing it with.. my aunt? The story and that conversation may have been it.
It just occurred to me that my sharing this is very like the behavior described in the essay. Blecch.
@Fishercat No, I can't say that I found it surprising. I just thought it encapsulated a very coherent portrait of the breadth of the rot.
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@Fishercat No, I can't say that I found it surprising. I just thought it encapsulated a very coherent portrait of the breadth of the rot.
@Remittancegirl That it does.
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"for this class, insight’s value varies inversely with the number of recipients. And the ultimate flex is getting insider intel and shrugging"
This is a truly, truly outstanding essay. If you read one thing this week, I strongly implore you to make it this:
Agree, this is bigger than Epstein. He didn't invent what he did. He put a few flourishes on a well-established form of corruption.
He used sex crimes to entice and corrupt entrants to his network, extorted them for financial and other favors to increase his leverage and the opportunities available to him. Wash, rinse, repeat.
He did it on a global scale. As with Trump, there will be a long line of would be movers and shakers wanting to replace him. Some already have.
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