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are DC or Wall St different?

Does it matter if they are? The statement stands.

I take it as an offering of deeper perspective, especially to one who is disheartened.

This is not the first, and won't be the last, group of successful people who rise to top-tier power through offering to propel middle-class folks into entry-level upper class power at great risk to society.

Move fast, break things.

And I take it as the sort of statement that can apply to literally anything. Chicago, Tulsa, Burbank, Dungeons and Dragons, antique mold collections, etc.

It's a silly thing to say on its own.

if a thing has generality of a law of physics ... i mean you can't be disheartened by the 3rd Newton law, can you?

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