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Pause. Let’s switch up to an interesting fact. Some of the biggest sources of money in the world are “investment funds”. Saudi Arabia’s investment fund, which I assume is made primarily of oil money, invests billions in proxies that invest in tech, construction...
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These hallowed portals of money are so massive and opaque, I’m not sure it’s possible for outsiders like me to develop an accurate model of them or how they work over the course of an entire lifetime. They’re almost like gods, or the high priests of the church of the $$$ god
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Pause. Switch back to jobs. A job is a role in an organization. My favorite fun example of an organization is a bank heist - the getaway driver gets paid even though he isn’t “directly” involved (depends on how you see it). When the heist is simple, every job clearly “matters”
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The scary thing to me as a teenager m was the prospect of working a bullshit job in a bullshit organization, cranking widgets that nobody actually cares about, nobody actually wants outside of the bizzaro context of the organization itself
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It’s interesting to reflect on this now - why was I so averse to this? Seriously, I was constantly nauseous in junior college because I felt like everyone around me was hallucinating and I was given a placebo or something. Everyone marching in lockstep to a beat I couldn’t hear
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Some time, space, reading & reflection has made it clear: school isn’t about education, school is part of an economic-industrial complex mass-producing interchangeable widgets for the capitalist meat grinder of humanity. Annoying wokebros whining about this doesn’t make it untrue
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Parents and teachers and peers all unwittingly conspire to create this mass hallucination where people collectively mutilate, cauterize and brand their minds in service of The Economy - and not The Economy itself, but their imperfect, vague and detached conceptualization of it
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The prospect of it always seemed hideously bleak to me. The prize for doing well in school, it seemed, was that you get to win one of the higher paying jobs in one of the more prestigious organisations, meaning you get to crank high-prestige widgets instead of low-status widgets
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