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A belly-to-back suplex is absolutely the right choice for this as it allows you to see the ridiculous pointy hood get absolutely crushed moments before they slam into the ground. I guess a piledriver would also work in that regard, but suplexes are cooler imo 👀

I completely sympathize with your hate of Jira, but could you possibly use some of that hate to delete some of the ten thousand tickets you've created and left in backlog over the past 5 years because you might want to do them someday?

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In this era of institutional failure, it is fantastical escapism to explore a world of competent administrators who take injustice seriously. That's what a murder mystery is - a fable of social and governmental decency and efficiency. Take it or leave it.

The animating principle of representational democracy is to protect the rest of us from the whims of deranged rich people, be they kings or oligarchs. Everything else is wainscoting.

… and it’s failed.

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I once told my line producer “I became a writer to tell stories and now I argue about how it costs $50,000 to move some
trucks.”

& by running most emotional expression *and* self-understanding through an anger filter. I don't know that it's even conscious for most guys. Sad? anger! Confused? Anger! Hurt? Anger! Vulnerable? Anger! It's teal and orange but for feelings

Historically, fools who think that all a movie or novel takes is an idea have been protected from finding out that their ideas are terrible by the fact that this is not true.

AI will change all that.

In the future, they will be protected from finding out by their lack of taste.

And as much as I would be happy to see the story of noblesse oblige banished to the dustbin of history, its replacement is exponentially worse.

So my rage at Friedman is not just at his role as an economist, but also as a storyteller.

He used beautiful tools to make a knife out of poison and shit.

Now, again, I want to reiterate that the story of Noblesse Oblige was largely bullshit, and it still enabled all manner of terrible things, but it was a powerful enough story to at least provide SOME counterbalance on unchecked greed. Enough to reach equilibrium at times.

I genuinely wish I was being hyperbolic here, but even a small amount of reading and listening to venture capitalists make it clear that - with somewhat more flowery language - this is the story they are telling themselves.

And the story is "We cannot really measure goodness, but we CAN measure dollars, and good things have come out of dollars, so then the only way to TRULY pursue goodness is to pursue wealth. And because this is good, any attempt to constrain growth of wealth would be evil!"

This, sadly, worked.

So, that didn't quite work, and some segment of the population had always resented that, and to them, Friedman was a savior.

Friedman wrote a lot of very smart things about economics, and I am certainly not well versed enough to speak to their intricacies. But I can tell their story.

Anyway, this need for a story is the reason that the worst people in the world really gravitated to the ideas of Social Darwinism. It offered an even better story for their wealth and success, at the minor cost of discarding empathy, human connection and common sense.

(If you think that sounds too small and petty for these great titans of history, I regret to reform you that we are all ultimately trapped in our own heads, and once your basic needs are met, that internal landscape is VASTLY more important than what's outside it)

However, even these gossamer shackles are too much for some, and they have actively sought out stories that would let them keep more of their money while still feeling good about themselves.

So you turn to a narrative of wealth coming with responsibility.

And this works pretty well. So long as you give enough money to put your name on some libraries, sponsor the arts, and police your own, you can continue to be rapacious rat bastards to your hearts content.

Humans are social creatures, and when you look at a vast asymmetry and need to explain it to yourself, to say nothing of your kids, you need a story to tell.

And it turns out "God just made us better than them" had some structural flaws.

It's bullshit, of course, but it's compelling bullshit, because stories are tricky things.

Because, see, that guy with the gold? He ALSO needs a story to tell himself.

One of the oldest stories of this type (outside of ones based on the favor of god) is the story of Noblesse Oblige. Yes, the guy has gold, but with that gold come responsibilities which bind him, and in serving those responsibilities, he serves everyone.

When you are hungry and you see some asshole dressed in gold, there is very logical instinct to maybe grab a rock and level the playing field.

The guy in gold wouldn't enjoy that, so he'd like to convince you of a world where you don't do that, because it's OK that he has the gold.

This can be horrific, when used for things like killing people in the name of god or country. And it can be heroic, when building things and helping people to make a better world, or because 'that's what people like us do'.

It is, perhaps, unsurprising then that stories are important to wealth.

Ok, no, I have a little more bile about Friedman and the power of stories.

The stories we tell ourselves are INCREDIBLY important. Humans can do unbelievable things (both good and bad) when we are inspired by the story of who we are and why we do things.

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