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that people that are that that are in that position do have such shitty ideas and i i

guess i wonder if it's if it really just is career preservation and it really just is an angle

to continue to move up in that world by presenting the either safest or or most common accepted

ideas rather than putting forth you you know, I mean,

I guess I could give them the benefit of the doubt and say they do actually believe in it.

I don't know.

But it certainly hasn't had the level of critical thought that is required.

Do you think that the reason that we do end up with a lot of stale, shitty ideas is because it is profitable for the people

who present them to present them.

Basically, I'm saying because you have no career aspirations, you're allowed to have good

ideas.

No, that's definitely part of it because, I mean, think about it.

There are two things that operate here, right?

So one is a kind of

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