How did Dr Gay feel? How much time did you spend on that? Zero seconds? Yeah. Though so. You & your wife are fucking hypocrites& even in 2010, Wikipedia wasn’t acceptable in academic writing, cited or not. Cut & paste from Wikipedia was lazy. And you both know it.
The current issue of Vanity Fair has a profile of William Ackman, the billionaire hedge fund manager who’s trying to bring down Herbalife. Ackman’s friends and enemies call him Bill; I know him as Billy.
You see, Billy Ackman and I grew up together in Chappaqua, New York. He was a year ahead of me in school. Our families went to the same synagogue. I knew his parents, and his older sister and my sister were in the same class. We weren’t friends, and he never made much of an impression on me. He was smart, but in the way many kids in Chappaqua were smart: he got good grades, obsessed about college, went to Harvard.
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You see, Ackman is one of those guys for whom phrases like “smartest guy in the room” mean something. That’s a phrase I’ve been thinking about of late. I know smart people, but their minds are so various and incommensurate, it’d be impossible to rank them according to intelligence. They’re all smart, but in different ways: one sees deeply, one sees quickly, one sees things no one else sees.
But Ackman operates in a world—and it’s not just Wall Street; you can also find it in DC, the media, the law, and some parts of academia—where rankings of this sort mean something. They have to: no matter what the endeavor, someone always has to come out on top or in first. Whether it’s the most money, the biggest house, or the fastest cyclist.
If you didn't realize it before, part of the reason they used to tax the ultra-rich like 90% was because they understood that if you let everyone have unlimited money, entire institutions and governments can be dismantled by one guy like Bill Ackman who gets mad that not everyone is doing exactly what he wants.
You can't run a democracy when six people can absolutely ruin everything whenever they feel like it.
What, were you counting on an honor system? Shockingly, asking people with unlimited power to share some with you doesn't fucking work.
And all this so dipshit congresspeople can get $25,000 campaign donations and free ski trips. They've sold the fundamental underpinings of a responsive public authority over the last 30, 40 years, for stupid loser middle class bitch shit.
"He gets to be king for life now because he bought me a cool car."
Good job, Boomers.
Trash generation. Their parents were right. TV absolutely rotted their brains.