Cut all the Cords: Hacking away at the strings between the Hand and the Puppet.

Am I the only one who is nauseated by these people like Justin Welsh and Codie A. Sanchez and Gary Vaynerchuk  and Zach Wilson who make their vast fortunes by telling others how to make vast fortunes? 

These "success gurus" out here...you ask them what exactly it is they do and its like "Oh I'm a leadership coach and my enterprise is telling other people how to be entrepreneurs". It's absolutely Kafka-esque. 

Because this man does not code, he does not build, he does not operate heavy machinery, he has never designed and implemented a structured data model, debugged a batch processing pipeline, cut lumber, installed a sink,  he has never changed a diaper, stitched a wound, slaughtered and dressed game or livestock, rigged a fuse, made potassium nitrate from wood ash, painted something, sculpted something or wrote something original that added to any discussion instead of just vomiting clichés back and forth. 

He has probably not used a tool since the last time he had to pry his head out of whatever orifice it was stuck in. All he has ever done is be a lackey for the financial parasites who think that shuffling digits back and forth between spreadsheets constitutes any kind of meaningful human endeavor. 

And when the burden of actively participating in the gaslighting schemes of Wall Street became too much and they broke his sanity and spirit, he was relegated to the sidelines to become a dutiful cheerleader whose only job is to recite, ad-nauseam, the catechisms of contemporary crony capitalism and calling it "entrepreneurship coaching". 

Now he is just one more avatar of an economy that is based entirely on grift. A low priest of the Epstein class who sings their praises and sustains the mythology that justifies their grip on the economy, at the expense of the planet and the rest of humanity. 

Who constantly enforces the Epstein-class party line by claiming that our criticisms of a marketplace that has been infected and corrupted by fraud, nepotism, cronyism, factionalism, treason, collusion, monopoly and the steady subversion of the laws meant to keep the game fair, is really the result of our "envy" or "entitlement" or "nihilism" or, most laughably of all, our "fear". 

Who compensates for his inability to respond to those criticisms by engaging in intimidation, humiliation, slander, sneak disses, strawman shenanigans, and ideological blackmail. 

Who tries to suppress and exclude critical voices by telling you "stay away from people who want to blame the system when it oppresses them, instead of internalizing that oppression and forcibly accepting responsibility for conditions created by the system, which it tries to deflect back on to its victims". 

Who has been reduced to a castrated courtier desperately preaching a gospel of "success" that is dangled in front of us like the carrot hanging in front of a hamster wheel rigged up to a generator, by people who claim sole authority to define "success" and gatekeep access to it.