Andrew Sage

So if you're a village chief in... There's actually a lot of indigenous tribes that were like this, but, you know, you're in, like, sort of the Northeast and...

You don't actually have the ability to compel people to do things.

So if you want people to go work in the morning, you have to, like, get up and make a giant show of, like, oh, I'm getting up to work in the morning.

Everyone follow me.

Wow, look at how hard I'm working.

And you have to, like, convince them through oratory.

And, you know, this is, like, why all these people, when Europeans run into them, everyone is like, holy shit, these are, like, these are the best orators I've ever encountered because they have to be, right?

But the more power you have, the less eloquence you have to have.

Which I think is like, you know, this is like a Donald Trump thing, right?

It's like, yeah, once you've reached this point in the process, you know, you can just compel people to do things through violence.

You can just, like, talk like a fourth grader and it's fine and it doesn't matter because you just have violence.

And that's what this reminds me of.

It's like, oh, we're the company.

Like, we're fucking owned by Nestle.

We have all this money.

We don't have to make compelling arguments.

We just have to, like, have power.

Yeah, I mean, pretty much.

Personally, it reads to me as like a way to delay actually talking about any of our demands at the table, because if you just eat up all the time, then there's no time to talk.

Yeah, yeah.