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Venkatesh Rao
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Conversational account. For work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian. IKEA builder.

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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 28
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      There is a motivated interest in doing this. Humanizing contact falsifies glib generalizations like “the poor are just lazy” or “the rich are just venal” and class-based theories of how things fail. This allows them to blame absolutely everything systemically wrong on other side.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 28
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      On both sides I listen more than I talk (which may seem impossible to some who complain that I talk too much), while making it clear that the counterparty should not assume my sympathies. One way or another I’m being paid to think on their behalf, not commiserate. Like a lawyer.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 28
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      To both sides I’m slightly suspect. The poor are suspicious of my work with the rich, and I’m often accused outright of being a petit bourgeoisie capitalist shill. Which is 100% true. Equally the rich often suggest I’m a commie in bourgeois disguise. Also 100% true.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 28
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      The opposite of every great truth is also a great truth. The poor are exploited. True. The poor are ressentiment driven identitarians who may or may not work hard. Also true. The rich are lazy venal rentiers. True. The rich are burdened with large responsibilities. Also true.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 28
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      This is class-based bothsidesism of course, which is why the worst of both sides are the ones who hate people like me the most (“vertical centrists” perhaps?). But for every systemic failure theres plenty of blame to distribute from top to bottom of pyramid.

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 28
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      Every class is complicit in how the world works. Every class has its full complement of sociopaths, clueless and losers. Every class has lazy and hard working types. Every class has people with fixed and fluid class identities. It’s a fractal thing.

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 28
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      Despite the fact that rewards of the system working are very unevenly distributed, ironically, every class winning or losing in terms of rewards seems super attached to the identities that keep the system the same. They want more rewards, but don’t want to change their identities

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 28
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      To bring it back around to investing, there is investing in *yourself* to consider. Self-Investors (1) invest in their own growth, destroying last identities to forge new ones. Self-Investors (2) double down harder and harder on who they think they are.

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 28
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      There’s also Self-Investors 1.5. People who “grow” in a limited way reducible to class mobility. Start rich, fall into poverty and go commie. Start poor, get rich, and go capitalist. They say you’re the mean of your 5 best friends. These class-movers just change their 5. 🙄

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    10. OTIS!‏ @otisfunkmeyer Jun 29
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      Why the 🙄

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 29
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      They think it’s change

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