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All money to the biggest pile... tomgara/1372912166874021888
Permalink On twitter.com ❤️ 17 Favorites 2021 Mar 19 Mood 0

…in reply to @Chronotope
This is entirely aside from Substack drama & I dunno what age Yglesias is but it is so freakin Boomer to take a biz where you use your reputation to found a publication, fund the rise of young journalists, & build a thing that lasts after you and instead pivot to personal wealth.
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…in reply to @Chronotope
I don't really say this with any sort of solution, but watching "star writers", for whatever that title is worth, move from founding publications to maximize personal profit via the power of their personal brand is so maximalist capitalism that it exhausts me.
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…in reply to @Chronotope
One of the things I've been talking about a bunch with friends is how Boomers basically are responsible for skipping a generation of mentorship, they got mentors who put work into that process and then... mostly didn't mentor anyone in return. And that's in basically every field
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…in reply to @Chronotope
Reading biz history makes it *very* apparent an entire generation benefited from mentorship & a calmer slower work lifestyle, & then flipped it over to endless work w/unlimited hours to maximize their personal profit and leave themselves no space to mentor even if they wanted
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…in reply to @Chronotope
& mostly they didn't because they all shifted from looking at biz as something to build up over generations of work to instead being an endless competition where they outmaneuvered their mentors and fired anyone who got close to competing with them from below b/c MAX competition.
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…in reply to @Chronotope
It makes it all the more challenging to even examine solving inequality b/c a whole generation basically cut the chain of mentorship & wealth generation in order to let it curdle in their personal pockets out of some like... moral shift. It sure didn't make the market more stable
Permalink On twitter.com ❤️ 4 Favorites 2021 Mar 19 Mood +7 🙂

…in reply to @Chronotope
Some people managed to inherent this mentality in the next generations but even where they didn't *want* it to work that way, most workplaces are constructed in such a way as to devalue work spent teaching others, which meant it was very hard to go back the other way.
On twitter.com ❤️ 3 Favorites 2021 Mar 19 Mood 0

…in reply to @Chronotope
Anyway, Millennial mentorship is very different in most cases, where it is a lot more reciprocal and less top down, though a big part of that is that boomers refuse to retire so there's a ceiling on how far one can rise in an established biz if you don't want to do a startup.
Permalink On twitter.com ❤️ 4 Favorites 2021 Mar 19 Mood +1 🙂

…in reply to @Chronotope
And of course 'do a startup' requires a ton of existing connections, resources, and fallback that is far far outside the capacity of most people to grasp so... :/
Permalink On twitter.com ❤️ 6 Favorites 2021 Mar 19 Mood 0

…in reply to @Chronotope
Anyway, this is also a major reason that now you have to move companies to get a promotion in most situations instead of being able to actually go up the ladder in a single corporation and its why job skipping is so common for Millennials.
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…in reply to @Chronotope
I dunno, no particular solutions here just the reality of the situation and how it looks like it is more likely to get worse instead of better wheeeeeeeeee
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