Modern management is to business relationships as pick-up artistry is to romantic relationships. It is manipulative and rapey. Perhaps this is how things have a

Modern management is to business relationships as pick-up artistry is to romantic relationships. It is manipulative and rapey. Perhaps this is how things have always been at the highest levels of sociopathy -- in the court of Versailles, or in bed with Henry VIII -- but it seems too broadly endemic today. When Gen Z shows up in the workplace with bravado and power-poses, it seems to me like fresh meat acting tough in hopes of surviving jail. The basic stuff of life will be pushed out of societies who continue on this path, and their death-cultures will be able to persist only by using money to lure in (and haze) new generations of cultists, up through the Darien Gap. They will believe that they are rich, special, and superior, and they will convince new aspirants of the same, but their lives will be living sacrifices to Jeff Bezos and their grandchildren will never come into existence -- a subliminal acknowledgement that such lives do not feel worth living. Bai lan.