“A market is not me selling you something. A market is a conversation.â€Â
I'm sure that this brand of onanistic horseshit will always get a warm reception from the Manhattan rich and the other ivory-tower toolboxes who prevail over there, but I gather it's wearing thin among, you know, people who actually need a job.
And as mind-numblingly detached as the comment was, I'm more appalled that no one called him on it. For God's sake, you have a group of palpably desperate people gathered in the Javits Center, the world's foremost corporate funeral parlor, contemplating the demise of not only their industry but also their personal livelihood, and there is Steinberger, going off on an esoteric circle jerk.
Had that comment been made at a Teamsters meeting in New Jersey, Steinberger would have had the shit beaten out of him. Conclusion: working-class New Jersey is an infinitely smarter, more sensible audience than Manhattan publishing.
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“A market is not me selling you something. A market is a conversation.â€Â
I'm sure that this brand of onanistic horseshit will always get a warm reception from the Manhattan rich and the other ivory-tower toolboxes who prevail over there, but I gather it's wearing thin among, you know, people who actually need a job.
And as mind-numblingly detached as the comment was, I'm more appalled that no one called him on it. For God's sake, you have a group of palpably desperate people gathered in the Javits Center, the world's foremost corporate funeral parlor, contemplating the demise of not only their industry but also their personal livelihood, and there is Steinberger, going off on an esoteric circle jerk.
Had that comment been made at a Teamsters meeting in New Jersey, Steinberger would have had the shit beaten out of him. Conclusion: working-class New Jersey is an infinitely smarter, more sensible audience than Manhattan publishing.