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Proximity – propinquity, really – leads to friendship. Unfortunately, it happens to be the very thing the busy, high-earning Americans trade for convenience. What if we didn’t?
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There’s been a prestige inversion for white collar workers. Profits used to follow the product and prestige followed the profits. Not anymore.
Financialization has altered the job landscape and created a dynamic where employment is a certification (not unlike a college degree) awarded to people who get in, not people who build. That’s great news for low-conviction floaters....
The fight over free speech matters, but the fight over paid speech will ultimately determine the direction of American culture (whether the New York cocktail party crowd likes it or not).
Why? Because there’s a natural antipathy between people who think attention should be earned and people who don’t mind just buying it. And, yes, it’s exact the sort of elite conflict that has historically started in boardrooms and ended in the street.
Corporate America was built by war heroes then rebuilt by greedy hippies. No wonder Silicon Valley went from white collar to brownshirt so fast.
For most of our history, professions were heritable in the form of tools, land, and know-how. All the changed when Horace the tinsmith and Zebulon the wheelwright skittered toward the factories.
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