Case in point: We’re All In The Epstein Files, a podcast episode by the worst people you know who only have jobs because they’re brown nosers and yes-men.
There’s an entire courtier class that get paid handsomely to defend billionaires. And then they stand up these big media institutions that hire even more people. Bari Weiss, another classic example of a come-from-nothing lick spittle who never saw a boot shiny enough that it couldn’t be improved by her tongue. Now she’s pulling down nine figures in payout, so she can lay off half the CBS workforce at the command of her failson boss, David Ellison.
Sucking up to these people is its own reward. Whether you’re one of the last few non-indie journalists or managers who still has a job in publishing or an insufferable bowtie campus conservative who coasts through the Ivy League by screaming “Failing me is antisemitic!” at any professor to the left of Ted Cruz, there’s a dividend paid out to the loudest and most annoying hacks. From Riley Gaines to Charlie Kirk, you will be rewarded for your piety.
Meanwhile, disobedience to the billionaire class carries its own perils. Maybe you’re someone at Gawker who lost their job to a Peter Thiel financed lawsuit. Maybe you’re a Palestinian journalist who got a sniper round through the earhole, because you were taking too many pictures of a double-tapped ambulance in Gaza or the West Bank or Lebanon. Maybe you’re a student activist on a visa who just got picked up by ICE. Maybe you’re a union organizer on a dozen different blacklists. Maybe you’re just some senior citizen Black Panther, who has been cooling heels in prison for bogus drug or gun charges since the Reagan Era.
Eric Adams has a real incentive to sell-out. Leqaa Kordia has a real incentive to stay quiet.
There’s a hierarchy to this sort of thing.
Case in point: We’re All In The Epstein Files, a podcast episode by the worst people you know who only have jobs because they’re brown nosers and yes-men.
There’s an entire courtier class that get paid handsomely to defend billionaires. And then they stand up these big media institutions that hire even more people. Bari Weiss, another classic example of a come-from-nothing lick spittle who never saw a boot shiny enough that it couldn’t be improved by her tongue. Now she’s pulling down nine figures in payout, so she can lay off half the CBS workforce at the command of her failson boss, David Ellison.
Sucking up to these people is its own reward. Whether you’re one of the last few non-indie journalists or managers who still has a job in publishing or an insufferable bowtie campus conservative who coasts through the Ivy League by screaming “Failing me is antisemitic!” at any professor to the left of Ted Cruz, there’s a dividend paid out to the loudest and most annoying hacks. From Riley Gaines to Charlie Kirk, you will be rewarded for your piety.
Meanwhile, disobedience to the billionaire class carries its own perils. Maybe you’re someone at Gawker who lost their job to a Peter Thiel financed lawsuit. Maybe you’re a Palestinian journalist who got a sniper round through the earhole, because you were taking too many pictures of a double-tapped ambulance in Gaza or the West Bank or Lebanon. Maybe you’re a student activist on a visa who just got picked up by ICE. Maybe you’re a union organizer on a dozen different blacklists. Maybe you’re just some senior citizen Black Panther, who has been cooling heels in prison for bogus drug or gun charges since the Reagan Era.
Eric Adams has a real incentive to sell-out. Leqaa Kordia has a real incentive to stay quiet.