No kidding. I read the article, and after the words "Yale law school grad" I kept asking myself, can't a motherfucker just get a damned job? This scheme he was running seemed like a lot of work.
You would be surprised at the hard work a lot of people go through in order to not actually do anything meaningful for society. Had a teacher once who told the story of a student who cheated on a test by writing notes on the back of a water bottle label and bringing it into class that day. That's some serious creativity and a lot of effort to avoid doing something like...studying and trying to retain facts.
History is filled to the brim with rich and powerful people who went too far in order to get just a bit more money and fell face first into a pit of scandal because of it. Watch "The Smartest Guys in the Room" one day. It's about the Enron scandal and they have these guys on tape saying and doing some seriously twisted and complicated things to keep their company from tanking. CEOs making millions who could have just leveraged their experience and gotten an executive job elsewhere before Enron collapsed went to MASSIVE lengths to avoid having to do any actual work.
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Who knew graft was such hard work.
No kidding. I read the article, and after the words "Yale law school grad" I kept asking myself, can't a motherfucker just get a damned job? This scheme he was running seemed like a lot of work.
You would be surprised at the hard work a lot of people go through in order to not actually do anything meaningful for society. Had a teacher once who told the story of a student who cheated on a test by writing notes on the back of a water bottle label and bringing it into class that day. That's some serious creativity and a lot of effort to avoid doing something like...studying and trying to retain facts.
History is filled to the brim with rich and powerful people who went too far in order to get just a bit more money and fell face first into a pit of scandal because of it. Watch "The Smartest Guys in the Room" one day. It's about the Enron scandal and they have these guys on tape saying and doing some seriously twisted and complicated things to keep their company from tanking. CEOs making millions who could have just leveraged their experience and gotten an executive job elsewhere before Enron collapsed went to MASSIVE lengths to avoid having to do any actual work.