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Your life looks very different when you see the whole corporate pyramid from the bottom to the top. This narrated business story follows one worker’s rise from invisible warehouse labor to hourly shift lead, salaried office employee, manager, director, vice president, C-suite executive, CEO, owner, and finally the invisible hand shaping markets from behind the scenes.
Each level reveals a new kind of power, from barcode badges and overtime shifts to boardrooms, stock grants, layoffs, private jets, and family offices. The story tracks how work changes when you move from surviving paycheck to paycheck to making decisions that affect thousands of employees, entire towns, and even the price of rent for people you will never meet.
It is a sharp, cinematic look at corporate hierarchy, wealth, executive life, management, leadership, and the hidden mechanics of capitalism. The tone is reflective and unsettling, showing how status, money, and responsibility transform the same person at every step.
Perfect for listeners searching for narrated business stories, corporate hierarchy explanations, executive mindset stories, workplace power dynamics, leadership storytelling, and long-form social commentary. Ideal for fans of business storytelling, office culture narratives, and thought-provoking narration about work, money, and the people at the top.
Each level reveals a new kind of power, from barcode badges and overtime shifts to boardrooms, stock grants, layoffs, private jets, and family offices. The story tracks how work changes when you move from surviving paycheck to paycheck to making decisions that affect thousands of employees, entire towns, and even the price of rent for people you will never meet.
It is a sharp, cinematic look at corporate hierarchy, wealth, executive life, management, leadership, and the hidden mechanics of capitalism. The tone is reflective and unsettling, showing how status, money, and responsibility transform the same person at every step.
Perfect for listeners searching for narrated business stories, corporate hierarchy explanations, executive mindset stories, workplace power dynamics, leadership storytelling, and long-form social commentary. Ideal for fans of business storytelling, office culture narratives, and thought-provoking narration about work, money, and the people at the top.
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00:00Level 1. The Invisible
00:02You are 22 years old. You work the overnight shift at a warehouse on the edge of town.
00:07Your badge has a barcode instead of a name. Your supervisor does not know you.
00:12Your supervisor's supervisor does not know your supervisor.
00:16You clock in at 10 p.m. You clock out at 6 a.m.
00:19In between, you move boxes from one conveyor belt to another for eight hours.
00:23The boxes contain things you will never own. Televisions, furniture, appliances, clothing from brands you cannot afford.
00:31You scan them. You stack them. You load them onto trucks that drive them to neighborhoods you have never visited.
00:37You are paid $16 an hour. After taxes and the mandatory parking fee and the health insurance premium that covers
00:44almost nothing, you take home $480 a week.
00:48Your rent is $900 a month for a room and a house with four other men.
00:52You share a bathroom with all of them.
00:54The kitchen is a microwave and a mini-fridge and a hot plate.
00:57The hot plate trips the breaker if you run it with anything else.
01:01You have no savings. You have no credit.
01:03You have a phone with a cracked screen that you cannot afford to replace.
01:07Nobody in the system above you has any idea you exist.
01:11You are a number on a spreadsheet, a line item in a labor cost projection.
01:15If you disappear tomorrow, someone else will be standing at your conveyor belt by Wednesday.
01:20Your absence will not be noticed because your presence was never noticed.
01:25You go home. You sleep through the daylight.
01:28You wake up in the afternoon and eat instant noodles.
01:31You scroll through your phone and watch other people's lives happen on a screen that cost more than your weekly
01:36paycheck.
01:37You dream of something better without being able to picture what better would look like.
01:41You are at the bottom of the pyramid.
01:44The pyramid does not know your name.
01:46Level 2. The hourly.
01:49You got promoted.
01:50Or you got a new job.
01:52Or you got your GED and a certificate from a community college.
01:56Now you are a shift lead at a fulfillment center.
01:59Your badge has a different color stripe at the top.
02:02Your hourly rate went up by $3.
02:04You have six people reporting to you.
02:07They are exactly the person you were two years ago.
02:10You stand at the front of a morning huddle in a fluorescent lit room at 5.55 a.m.
02:15You read the production numbers off a clipboard.
02:18The numbers came from a computer.
02:20The computer was programmed by someone in an office in a different state.
02:24You announce the targets.
02:26Everyone nods.
02:27Nobody argues.
02:28There is no point in arguing.
02:30The targets are the targets.
02:32And the targets are not negotiable.
02:34You write schedules.
02:36You approve time off requests.
02:37You deny time off requests.
02:40You have conversations with people about their attendance points.
02:43You know that three more points means termination.
02:46You know that some of these people have children at home and car problems and medical issues.
02:51Nobody in the system cares about any of that.
02:54The system does not care.
02:56The system cares about throughput.
02:59You are the face of a system that does not have a face.
03:03When someone gets fired, you are the one who walks them out.
03:06You hand them their final paperwork.
03:08You take their badge.
03:10You watch them put their personal items in a plastic bag.
03:13You watch them walk through the parking lot to a car that may or may not start.
03:18You go back inside and finish your shift.
03:20You are paid $24 an hour now.
03:23You can afford your own apartment.
03:25You have a car that runs.
03:26You have health insurance that covers a visit to a clinic if something goes wrong.
03:30You are doing better than you were.
03:32You are also doing the work of maintaining a machine that grinds people down.
03:37The machine exists so that products can be delivered in two days.
03:41You try not to think about that part.
03:44Thinking about it does not help.
03:46Level 3.
03:47The salaried.
03:48You have a college degree now.
03:50You finished it at night while you worked during the day.
03:53It took you six years.
03:54Your parents framed the diploma and hung it on the wall in their living room.
03:58You were the first person in your family to graduate.
04:01You got a job at a company that makes something.
04:03It does not matter what.
04:05Software, insurance, medical devices, consumer packaged goods.
04:09You work in an office in a business park off a highway exit.
04:12The building has a lobby with a fountain and a security desk.
04:15You have a cubicle.
04:17Your cubicle has a nameplate.
04:19Your nameplate has your full name on it and the title associate below it.
04:23You make $62,000 a year.
04:25You have a 401k.
04:27You have dental insurance.
04:28You have two weeks of paid vacation that you are afraid to use.
04:32Everyone says they encourage it, but nobody actually takes it.
04:35You wear a collared shirt to work every day.
04:38You learn the language of the office.
04:40Synergy.
04:41Bandwidth.
04:42Circle back.
04:43Deep dive.
04:45Value add.
04:46These words mean nothing and everything.
04:49They are how people in offices signal to each other that they understand how offices work.
04:54You attend meetings.
04:55So many meetings.
04:56Meetings about projects.
04:58Meetings about the meetings about projects.
05:00Meetings to prepare for meetings with people three levels above you.
05:04Those people might show up and might not.
05:06You sit in conference rooms with your laptop open.
05:09You nod at the right moments.
05:10You speak when you are asked a direct question.
05:13You learn to never volunteer information that might make extra work for yourself.
05:17Your manager is a woman named Karen who is two years older than you.
05:21She has been at the company since she graduated.
05:23She likes you because you do not threaten her.
05:26You turn in your work on time.
05:27You respond to emails within an hour.
05:30You stay late when she stays late.
05:32You leave when she leaves.
05:33You are building something here.
05:35You are not sure what.
05:37A career, supposedly.
05:38A life.
05:39A foundation.
05:41You pay down your student loans a little bit each month.
05:43You save a little bit each month.
05:45You tell yourself that if you just keep your head down, things will work out.
05:49Some days you believe it.
05:51You go out with coworkers on Friday nights.
05:53You drink two beers.
05:54You go home early.
05:56You wake up at 6 a.m. on Saturday because your body has forgotten how to sleep in.
06:00You date someone you met on an app.
06:02It is fine.
06:03It is not serious.
06:05Neither of you has the bandwidth for serious.
06:07You are saving for a down payment on a condo.
06:10You are saving for a ring someday.
06:12You are saving for a life you have not yet figured out how to describe.
06:15Level 4.
06:17The Manager
06:17They promoted you after 4 years.
06:20You now have 8 people reporting to you.
06:22You still report to Karen.
06:24Karen reports to someone named Dave who runs the entire department of 60 people.
06:29You have seen Dave in meetings.
06:30He has never spoken to you directly.
06:33You have a small office now.
06:34A door that closes.
06:36Windows that look out onto the parking lot.
06:38You make $95,000 a year plus a bonus.
06:41The bonus is supposedly 15% of your salary.
06:45In practice, it comes in at 8% to 12%, depending on how the company did that year.
06:51Dave decides how to allocate the pool.
06:53You manage people now.
06:54This is the thing that nobody in business school actually prepares you for.
06:59You thought managing people meant telling them what to do.
07:01It means the opposite.
07:03It means absorbing everything they bring to you.
07:05Complaints about coworkers.
07:08Requests for time off.
07:09Questions about promotions that you cannot answer.
07:12You do not have the authority to make those decisions.
07:15Performance issues that you have to document carefully.
07:18If you ever need to fire someone, HR will need the paperwork to approve it.
07:23You learn to write performance improvement plans.
07:25You learn the exact language that protects the company from lawsuits.
07:29You learn that your job is not to help your team succeed.
07:32Your job is to deliver results for the company.
07:35You also keep your team from quitting in numbers that would be noticed.
07:39You sit through training sessions on diversity and inclusion.
07:42You sit through training sessions on harassment prevention.
07:45You sit through training sessions on cybersecurity.
07:48You click through the slides.
07:50You take the quiz at the end.
07:51You pass with a score that is just high enough.
07:55You go back to your office.
07:56You have a one-on-one with a direct report who is crying.
07:59Her husband lost his job and she is worried about her health insurance.
08:03You do not know what to say.
08:05You say the things HR told you to say.
08:07You feel like a fraud.
08:09You go home.
08:10You pour a glass of wine.
08:12You check your work email one more time before bed.
08:15Dave sent a message at 9.47 p.m.
08:18You cannot be the person who did not respond until morning.
08:22Level 5.
08:23The Director.
08:24You are 38 years old.
08:26You have been at the company for 11 years.
08:28You have been promoted three times.
08:30You have an office on the fourth floor with an actual view.
08:34Your door stays closed for most of the day.
08:36You have 40 people in your organization across three teams.
08:39You make $175,000 a year plus stock options that vest over four years.
08:45Your bonus is meaningful now.
08:47You fly business class on trips over four hours.
08:50You stay in hotels that have room service.
08:52You have a corporate credit card.
08:54You have direct reports who are managers who have their own direct reports.
08:58You are far enough from the actual work now that you rarely touch it.
09:01You review summaries of reports prepared by your managers.
09:05Your managers reviewed the reports prepared by their managers.
09:08Their managers reviewed the work done by the people who actually do the work.
09:12The information gets filtered at each level.
09:14By the time it reaches you, it has been sanitized.
09:17Problems are framed as opportunities.
09:20Failures are framed as learnings.
09:22You know this because you used to be the person doing the sanitizing.
09:25You know exactly how much is being hidden from you.
09:28You pretend not to know.
09:29If you acknowledged it, you would have to do something about it.
09:32You meet with vendors.
09:34You approve budgets.
09:35You sign off on hires and fires that your managers recommended.
09:39You attend leadership offsites at resorts where the company pays for everyone to stay in nice rooms.
09:44You eat steak dinners while talking about strategy.
09:47You do trust falls.
09:48You do personality assessments.
09:50You are a driver, or an analyzer, or an expressive.
09:54Whatever the consultant has decided the four executive personalities are this year, you fit one of them.
09:59You go home on Sunday night and your spouse asks how it went.
10:03You say it was fine.
10:04You do not mention that you spent four days pretending to care about things you do not care about.
10:09You did it so that people above you will think you are leadership material.
10:13You eat dinner.
10:14You check your email.
10:15You send three replies.
10:17You close the laptop.
10:19You open it again.
10:20You send one more.
10:21You go to bed.
10:23Level 6.
10:24The Vice President.
10:26The promotion came with a new title, a new office, and a new level of invisibility.
10:31You are a Vice President now.
10:34The company has 47 Vice Presidents.
10:36The title means less than it sounds like.
10:38It also means more than it sounds like.
10:41You report directly to a Senior Vice President.
10:44That person reports to an Executive Vice President who reports to the CEO.
10:48You are three levels from the top of a company of 8,000 people.
10:52You make $320,000 in base salary.
10:56Your bonus target is 40% of base.
10:59Your stock grants have increased dramatically.
11:02If the company has a good year, you make closer to $700,000.
11:06If the stock goes up, you make more.
11:09You have started to understand how wealth actually works for people like you, not through salary, through equity, through compounding,
11:17through the tax advantages available to people who have lawyers and accountants.
11:21You have lawyers and accountants now.
11:23You have a financial advisor who calls you about rebalancing your portfolio.
11:27You have a house with four bedrooms in a good school district.
11:30You have two cars.
11:32You have a vacation home that you visit six weekends a year.
11:35You have children in private school.
11:37You have a gym membership and a personal trainer and a therapist.
11:41You also have a couples counselor because your marriage has been under strain for three years.
11:46The strain is about how much you work.
11:48You work constantly.
11:51You are on email from the moment you wake up until the moment you fall asleep.
11:54You take calls on vacation.
11:56You take calls from the bleachers at your daughter's soccer game.
11:59You take calls in the car on the way to dinner.
12:02Your spouse has stopped being surprised.
12:04Your children have stopped asking.
12:06Your son is 12.
12:08He plays travel soccer on weekends.
12:10You have seen him play three full games this year.
12:13You have good reasons for each one you missed.
12:16The reasons do not matter to him.
12:18He stopped asking you to come around his 10th birthday.
12:21You manage a P&L of $200 million.
12:25You have 400 people in your organization.
12:27You are responsible for hitting quarterly targets that determine whether the stock goes up or down.
12:33When the stock goes down, shareholders get angry.
12:36When shareholders get angry, the CEO gets called.
12:40When the CEO gets called, you get called.
12:42You learn to speak the language of earnings calls, operational efficiencies, headcount optimization, strategic realignment.
12:51These words all mean the same thing.
12:53They mean firing people.
12:55You have fired a lot of people.
12:57You feel different about it than you did when you were a manager.
13:00You feel almost nothing now.
13:02You have signed off on layoffs of 200 people at a time.
13:06You have presented the plans in conference rooms.
13:08You have watched the numbers go up in your quarterly review.
13:12The people who lost their jobs do not exist in your world.
13:15They are lines on a spreadsheet that move from one column to another.
13:20Level 7.
13:21The C-Suite
13:21They made you a senior vice president.
13:24Then they made you an executive vice president.
13:27Then one day the CEO called you into his office.
13:29He offered you the role of chief operating officer.
13:33You accepted before he finished the sentence.
13:35You are in the C-Suite now.
13:37Chief something officer.
13:39Chief operating officer.
13:40Chief financial officer.
13:41Chief marketing officer.
13:43The titles vary.
13:44The reality is the same.
13:45You are one of 8 or 10 people who actually run the company.
13:49You report directly to the CEO.
13:51You sit in his staff meeting every Monday morning.
13:54You have a corner office on the top floor of the building.
13:57You have an executive assistant who manages your calendar with the precision of an air traffic controller.
14:02You make $1.2 million in base salary.
14:05Your bonus target is 75% of base.
14:08You receive annual equity grants worth between $3 and $8 million, depending on the year.
14:13You have a driver.
14:14You have a private jet that the company leases.
14:17You can use it for business trips, which you define liberally.
14:20You have a security detail when you travel internationally.
14:23You have a personal publicist who handles your appearances at industry conferences.
14:27You sit on the board of two non-profits.
14:29You sit on one advisory board for a venture capital firm.
14:33You are profiled in business magazines.
14:35You speak at universities.
14:37You are quoted in articles about the future of your industry.
14:40You have opinions now.
14:41The opinions are listened to.
14:43You have forgotten what it was like to say something in a meeting and have no one respond.
14:47Every word you say is weighed.
14:50Every offhand comment is analyzed.
14:52You mention in a staff meeting that you are concerned about customer retention in one segment.
14:57Within 48 hours, three task forces have been assembled to investigate.
15:01You have power.
15:02You have power.
15:03Real power.
15:04The kind of power that moves money and people and resources.
15:07You can hire someone at a compensation level that is higher than you made 10 years ago.
15:11You can fire someone with a single email.
15:14You can commission a study.
15:15You can kill a product line.
15:17You can enter a new market.
15:19You can exit a market.
15:20You can reorganize a division.
15:22You are learning the limits of that power at the same time.
15:25The board watches you.
15:27The investors watch you.
15:28The analysts watch you.
15:30Every decision is judged against quarterly results.
15:33You can do whatever you want as long as the numbers keep going up.
15:36The moment the numbers stop going up, you are vulnerable.
15:40Level 8.
15:41The CEO
15:42The previous CEO retired.
15:44The board conducted a search.
15:46They interviewed candidates from inside the company and from outside.
15:49You were one of three finalists.
15:51The board chose you.
15:53You are the chief executive officer now.
15:55Your compensation package is $18 million in the first year.
15:59Most of it is in equity.
16:01If the stock performs well, you could make $40 million or more in subsequent years.
16:05You are 52 years old.
16:07You have been working toward this moment for 30 years without always knowing it.
16:12You sit at the head of a table in a boardroom on the top floor.
16:15The building has your company's name on it.
16:17You report to a board of directors made up of former CEOs and investors.
16:22The board also includes academic and non-profit representatives.
16:25Their presence signals to the world that the company takes governance seriously.
16:29The board meets four times a year.
16:31In between board meetings, you run the company.
16:34You have 12,000 employees across 14 countries.
16:37You have annual revenues of $4 billion.
16:40Your market capitalization fluctuates between $25 and $40 billion, depending on the quarter.
16:46You have factories and distribution centers, and research labs, and retail operations on four continents.
16:53You wake up at 5 a.m.
16:55You read a daily briefing prepared by your chief of staff.
16:57Market news.
16:59Industry news.
17:00Competitor news.
17:01Employee news that reached a threshold of significance to be included.
17:04You work out with a trainer for 45 minutes.
17:08You eat breakfast prepared by a chef who comes to your house three days a week.
17:12You are driven to the office.
17:14You arrive at 7.30.
17:15You are in meetings from 7.30 until 7 p.m.
17:18You take a 20-minute break for lunch that you eat at your desk while reading memos.
17:23You make decisions all day.
17:24Some of them affect thousands of people.
17:27You approve the acquisition of a smaller company for $800 million.
17:31You approve the closure of a factory in a town where your company has operated for 40 years.
17:361,200 people will lose their jobs.
17:38You understand that these people have families.
17:41You understand that the town will be devastated.
17:44You also understand that the factory is no longer profitable.
17:47Keeping it open would hurt the company's performance.
17:50The board would not approve it.
17:52You sign the order.
17:53You go to dinner with a client.
17:55You laugh at his jokes.
17:57You go home.
17:58You sleep for five hours.
18:00You do it again.
18:01Your wife has not been your wife in any real sense for about eight years.
18:05You are still married.
18:06You still share a house.
18:08You appear together at charity galas and on vacation photos that get posted for the holidays.
18:13The intimacy you once had disappeared somewhere during your second stint as an executive vice president.
18:18Neither of you talks about it.
18:20Neither of you has the energy to fix it or end it.
18:23Your therapist says this is more common than most people realize at your level.
18:27You believe him.
18:29You have two children who are grown now.
18:31Your son works in consulting.
18:33Your daughter lives in another city and calls once a month.
18:36She was the one who caught you working on Christmas morning when she was 12.
18:40She has not fully forgiven you and you understand why.
18:43Level nine.
18:44The owner.
18:45You started a company 30 years ago in a garage.
18:48Or you inherited a company from your father who inherited it from his father.
18:53Or you bought a controlling stake through a leveraged buyout 25 years ago.
18:56You wrote it through four economic cycles.
19:00The path does not matter.
19:01What matters is that you own it.
19:04Not options.
19:05Not grants.
19:06Ownership.
19:07Controlling stakes.
19:08Voting shares.
19:10The actual thing itself.
19:12You have a net worth somewhere between $2 billion and $15 billion.
19:16You are on lists that list the wealthiest people in the country.
19:20You do not pay attention to the lists.
19:22The lists are for people who care about lists.
19:25You do not care about lists.
19:27You care about control.
19:30You have a CEO who runs your company day to day.
19:32You have a family office that manages your investments.
19:35You have an estate planner who works on the structures that will pass your wealth to your children.
19:40You have lawyers who specialize in tax law in three jurisdictions.
19:44You have a philanthropic foundation that distributes $100 million a year to causes that align with your values.
19:51The foundation bears your name.
19:53Buildings at universities bear your name.
19:56A wing of a hospital bears your name.
19:58A scholarship fund bears your name.
20:00You have shaped the physical landscape of several cities through your giving.
20:05You also have shaped the political landscape through your giving.
20:08You donate to candidates from both parties who understand the importance of certain policies to your industries.
20:13You fund think tanks that produce research supporting those policies.
20:18You attend conferences in Davos and Aspen and Sun Valley.
20:22People who think like you gather there to discuss the state of the world.
20:26You have a private plane.
20:28Actually, you have three private planes.
20:30One in the United States, one in Europe, one in Asia.
20:34You have homes on three continents.
20:36You have a staff of 40 people who maintain your various properties and handle your various affairs.
20:42You are free in ways that most people cannot imagine.
20:46You are also trapped in ways most people cannot imagine.
20:49Every relationship is complicated by your wealth.
20:52Every friend has an angle or is suspected of having an angle.
20:56Your children have grown up in a world where they have never experienced consequences.
21:00Two of them are fine.
21:01One of them is struggling in ways that no amount of therapy has been able to fix.
21:06You wonder sometimes what your life would have looked like if you had stopped at level 7.
21:10If you had enjoyed the money without pursuing the next thing.
21:13You do not think about it for long.
21:16People like you do not stop.
21:18Level 10.
21:19The Invisible Hand
21:20You are not on any list.
21:22Your name does not appear in newspapers.
21:24Your face is not known to the public.
21:26You do not give interviews.
21:28You do not tweet.
21:29You do not attend Davos.
21:30Though you are aware of what happens there.
21:33You operate at a level that most wealthy people do not know exists.
21:37You control a pool of capital so large that the decisions you make move markets.
21:42A phone call from you can raise the interest rate on a country's debt.
21:46A meeting you take can determine whether a new technology gets funded into existence or dies as a prototype.
21:52You have influence that cannot be measured in dollars.
21:55You have influence that shapes the world.
21:58There are maybe 50 people on earth who operate at your level.
22:01You know most of them.
22:02You went to school with some of them.
22:04You vacation occasionally with a few.
22:06You compete with all of them in ways that outsiders would not recognize as competition.
22:10Your homes are not listed in any registry.
22:13Your primary residence is a compound that does not appear on satellite maps.
22:18Your transportation does not follow public itineraries.
22:21Your children attend schools that do not publish enrollment.
22:24Your meetings happen in rooms that have been swept for listening devices.
22:28Your communications are encrypted.
22:30You learned these habits not from paranoia, but from necessity.
22:34You are older now.
22:35Your knees hurt when you walk downstairs.
22:38Your eyesight has begun to fade.
22:40You wear reading glasses that cost more than a working person makes in a month.
22:44It does not matter.
22:46Money stopped mattering three decades ago.
22:48What matters now is legacy.
22:50What matters now is what you leave behind.
22:53You are writing a will that will affect generations of people.
22:56You are structuring trust that will outlive you by 200 years.
23:00You are choosing which institutions will carry your name into a future you will not see.
23:05You sit in a garden on an estate in a country you have called home for 20 years.
23:10The garden was designed by a landscape architect whose name you do not remember.
23:14A gardener tends it every day.
23:16You watch the light change as the afternoon turns toward evening.
23:20You think about a boy you knew in school 60 years ago.
23:23He was smarter than you.
23:25He did not have your drive.
23:27He became a teacher.
23:28He died five years ago of a heart condition.
23:31You read his obituary in a small town paper that a researcher sent you.
23:35He had three children and seven grandchildren.
23:38The obituary listed the names.
23:40You wonder if he was happy.
23:42You wonder if the question even makes sense.
23:45You do not know whether you have been happy.
23:47You have been busy.
23:49You have been successful.
23:50You have been powerful.
23:52Happiness was not among the metrics you tracked.
23:55You have a son who runs part of your empire now.
23:58He is competent, but not visionary, and you have made peace with that.
24:03Your daughter runs the foundation.
24:05She is the one who understands what matters, though she will never say so directly.
24:09You have six grandchildren.
24:11You know their birthdays.
24:13You do not know their favorite foods or the names of their friends, and it is too late to learn
24:18those things now.
24:19You wrote letters to each of them, sealed in envelopes, to be opened after your funeral.
24:24You do not know what you said in the letters.
24:27You wrote them in a single afternoon three years ago, and you have never looked at them again.
24:33Somewhere right now, a young person is walking across a warehouse floor in a city you have never visited.
24:39Their badge has a barcode.
24:41They have no idea you exist.
24:43They have no idea that the decisions you make affect the price of their rent.
24:48They do not know the name of the fund that owns their employer.
24:51They do not know the name of the fund that owns the fund.
24:54They do not know your name.
24:56They never will.
24:58And you are connected to them in ways that neither of you can fully understand.
25:02You are at the top.
25:04They are at the bottom.
25:05The pyramid stands because of both of you.
25:08It has always stood.
25:09It always will.
25:11The cycle continues.