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A Boring Dystopia
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I had a boss years ago who owned a temp agency. When he bought the business it was giving him $40,000 per month in profits but this had dropped to $25,000 per month -- probably because he spent his day playing solitaire on his computer and listening to Rush LImbaugh instead of, you know, actually doing anything to benefit the business. I had the pleasure once of watching him berate his two receptionists (who made $7.25 an hour and had nothing whatsoever to do with the success of the business) for this drop in his income. He was friends with a bunch of west coast venture capitalists who were each worth hundreds of millions of dollars and his "poverty" absolutely burned him to his core.
Guy was pissed he wasn't as good at exploiting people as his VC friends. What a joke of a person.