Are you surprised? Am I supposed to be? Of course not.
Is there a book deal in that?
The devastating opportunism here was probably at least supposed to not look so disconcertingly lily white, I guess. Joke's on... who?
If we're supposed to make this a class war thing, how about we talk about the Cornell grad who's set themselves up to get recurring royalties and speaking deals reinvigorating rage against the criminally stupid low-level thieves caught on camera lifting TVs and kitchenware?
God forbid we just say "no, this isn't how a functional society can possibly work."
"The plight of the lesser-estated criminal idiot does sustain me, though I long for his vigor."
To this very moment I can't tell whether the issue taken is with work and trade broadly, or only with work and trade that causes the sort of asset accumulation that lifts peasants out of subsistence farming
Imagine explaining to aliens that your multigenerational positive-sum wealth-generation scheme worked so well that you had to start guillotining the people who ship you same-day hand sanitizer during a pandemic just to feel alive
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