The Michael Scott Theory of Social Class [Alex Danco]

<p>Listen to the Infinite Loops podcast: <a href="https://www.infiniteloopspodcast.com/alex-danco-everyones-job-is-world-building-ep53/">https://www.infiniteloopspodcast.com/alex-danco-everyones-job-is-world-building-ep53/</a> (40mins in)</p><p>Read the full essay: <a href="https://alexdanco.com/2021/01/22/the-michael-scott-theory-of-social-class/">https://alexdanco.com/2021/01/22/the-michael-scott-theory-of-social-class/</a></p><p>See tweet reactions: <a href="https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1424953927426928646">https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1424953927426928646</a></p><p><strong>Transcript</strong> <br> </p><p>[00:00:00] Hey everyone today, I'm about to break one of the core rules of this mixed tape, which is that episode should come in at around 10 minutes. Uh, this is a 25 minute rant from Alex Danco, which is still one of the best essays I've read of the year. He posted it on January 22nd, and I think it's still resonating.  </p><p>It basically is a theory of social class that is both entertaining and actually strangely true. Just don't think too hard about it because if you do you will realize how true it is. </p><p>Maybe this is a good segue into the other thing that I feel like we were theoretically supposed to talk about this podcast episode,  </p><p>which was the Michael Scott theory of social class, which again is like another example of the power of world-building in this  </p><p>case, it's the power of  </p><p>world-building as applied to the phenomenon of middleman. </p><p>Right, right. Like, what is middle management? If not world built real, because that's all you've got right. Is this  </p><p>world you've constructed. So originally a missile, who's  </p><p>going to fill the forms out. I mean, come on.  </p><p>It's not, it's not anything who's going to fill the firms out. It's like, who's going to create the meaning. </p><p>It's like I forgot who described middle  </p><p>management as the control rods and a nuclear reactor. It's like, but the point of them is to slow things down so that