"Bad faith." Fans of this clip will enjoy the podcast we recorded last night. That episode does the work of explaining what's really going on here
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I don't consider it a grift, because that implies they're cheating or scamming. What they're doing is standard operating procedure, what anyone in that structure would do. To call out "grifting" is like singling out Watergate as the only scandal, as if everything else wasn't
I'm not fond of the players -- nothing personal of course -- but it's the game I really despise. And I can't see a way out beyond de-mystifying this state of affairs and seeing what the impact of that process is. Likely nothing, but nothing is always what happens
