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The Gervais Principle is a great read for fans of The Office and/or people who work at large companies. Nice to see it get a shout out.

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...

This. The OP is effectively a re-wording of the Gervais principal - same idea with slightly less words in blog form. It's a bit ingenious to claim a whole new theory.

I had the same impression, but I _did_ find the translation to these three "social ladders" worthwhile.

His theory is new because it's applied to Class. It's far worse because it is poorly fleshed out.

Did you mean ingenious or ingenuous?

Disingenuous would make more sense in the context of GP’s comment, but I too have a hard time seeing how ingenious works here.

Beware, it makes you aware. I can't take a power structure seriously anymore, which, weirdly, made me very promotable as the principle foretold.

Don't read Marx, then. It would wreck you.

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