every single thing is to explain how your dad beating your ass for laughing at the dinner table was actually good and smart and something only someone who really loves you would do

I remember working in silicon valley around 2015, and looking at Uber, & thinking about how weird it was that I could triple my salary if I went to work there, that Uber was really treating its engineers like kings and queens, when its whole business model was creating a sub-minimum-wage underclass…

Schumer keeps talking about how the public needs to “rise up.” We live in a representative democracy, Chuck. We elected you with the understanding that you would be the first line of defense here, not the guy hanging out in the back waiting for the mob to storm the castle.

I know the material reasons for the rise of fascism. I also think another reason - which doesn’t get talked about as much because it’s embarrassing that humans can be that naive - is that when you are financially comfortable but bored, abstract cruelty can give you a sense of purpose.

Because, at the end of the day, professionals are just a kind of workers. Relatively privileged workers, yes - but it's the relatively privileged workers who the owners hate most. And if you see someone complaining about the "professional managerial class"? Well, they're on the side of the bosses.

This is pretty clearly the project that Musk is carrying out with DOGE - an attack on the professionals and managers of government, and on the rules and structures and institutions that organize their activity around some autonomous goal rather than just carrying out orders from above.