Brilliant! Yes, asymmetric information access is foundation of all authoritarian governing entities. Money is nothing more than representation of information regarding wealth, and controlling access points to money, effectively controls access to wealth. The security agent's duties resemble exactly the operations of the East German stasi and current US character assainations perpetrated by the luegenpresse and social media.
It is quite tragic, yet believable, that the Western corporatocracy would be indifferent to the proper training and the long-term retention of their security operatives. Well trained, highly skilled internal security agents are extremely valuable to proper functioning of a state; they are not the easily replaceable fodder of the military or the police. I suppose we live in an era, and will likely continue to live in an era, of inelegant governing methods that rely purely on obtuse force application. Such waste of resource, like the protagonist in the story, is downright sinful.
That brutish execution of political ends is endemic in Western corporatism, generally, I note. I visited a doctor for a wound on my knee that didn't heal. He took a sharpie and drew a cross on it, gave me 4 vials of unguents, and told me to apply a different one to each of the four quarters of the lesion, and call him after the weekend.
One of them seemed to be working, and he prescribed it.
While this was seemingly a blatant exercise in admission of ignorance, I found it vastly preferable to the more common practice of doctors of pretense to omniscience, in which they would say 'Ah, it's this you have, and this will fix you right up.' Then, as each unguent serially fails, they prescribe the next, until they hit on the one that works, or your leg falls off, whichever comes first.
Give me honest ignorance and experiment to discover the facts any day! Rather than ignorance, it is the pretense of being infallible that is most bestial and rude. This quality is remarkably evident in political discourse, in the need to divide 'us' against 'them' and so create political power.
That brutish execution of political ends is endemic in Western corporatism, generally, I note. I visited a doctor for a wound on my knee that didn't heal. He took a sharpie and drew a cross on it, gave me 4 vials of unguents, and told me to apply a different one to each of the four quarters of the lesion, and call him after the weekend.
One of them seemed to be working, and he prescribed it.
While this was seemingly a blatant exercise in admission of ignorance, I found it vastly preferable to the more common practice of doctors of pretense to omniscience, in which they would say 'Ah, it's this you have, and this will fix you right up.' Then, as each unguent serially fails, they prescribe the next, until they hit on the one that works, or your leg falls off, whichever comes first.
Give me honest ignorance and experiment to discover the facts any day! Rather than ignorance, it is the pretense of being infallible that is most bestial and rude. This quality is remarkably evident in political discourse, in the need to divide 'us' against 'them' and so create political power.
They don't call it medical practice because it's an exact science, but because they are practising on us.
I often ask my customers...... would they write me a check, if I told them their kitchen had a 50 percent chance of recovering when they hired me to remodel it.
but that is exactly what we get from Dr's and Lairs, oops I mean Lawyers....maybe?
I mispronounce that word 'lawyers' alla time.
It almost always comes out 'liars'.
Grrr! Steemit is broken again. I keep getting multiples when I post a comment. Dunno why it's happening, but I'm actually getting in the habit of writing it, copying to clipboard, posting it, and then canceling the post when I get the error message.
Sorry about the double post.