Warning: contains Yellowjackets and Eyes Wide Shut spoilers.
I've been watching the lastest episode of Yellowjackets. I've also watched Eyes Wide Shut and listened to Western Decline, and similar themes are there too.
Imagine you are a wealthy and successful businessman, with an attractive 17-year-old daughter, which is above the Age of Consent wherever you are.
Everyone in this thought experiment is your race.
Your business is furniture manufacturing and you're doing well, but not big time. A significantly-bigger firm of furniture and homeware-sellers is expanding into your part of the country and talking to different furniture manufacturers in the area, looking to pick one for an average-sized contract for them, but a big one for you, which would level up your business if you got it.
You go to an expensive restaurant with them and your wife to talk the deal over and so you can all get a feel for each other. It's going well, and you think you're probably going to get the deal, but then your wife starts acting awkward and bitchy, fucks up the atmosphere, offends the businessmen and blows your chance.
A few months later you happen to meet these businessmen in an expensive hotel lobby while you are all travelling. Your daughter is with you but your wife is not. These businessmen are say in their late 30s, respectable, attractive, wealthy, well-dressed and in shape. They are married (to women), with children. You have since found out that they ended up picking another furniture manufacturer, who is objectively not as good as you.
You have an opportunity to approach the businessmen, apologise for last time, blame it on your wife's unfortunate mental illness, and try to make things up (remember you were getting on well before, until your wife spoilt it) and have another shot at the deal. You all know that your business is objectively a better choice, and they only went with the other one because they were offended. Maybe they were bluffing a little about how strong their position was too.
The question is: do you have a quiet word with your daughter? Let's say the contract would be worth £300,000 the first year, and probably more in future years if everything goes well. Do you ask her if she would like to 'hang out' with these businessmen (separately) in their hotel rooms, to help you get the deal? You could offer her a new car or a skiing holiday. Both even. Or something else like university costs, if that's expensive in your country. No one will find out. You can search them before they enter the hotel room (for the first time), to make sure they don't have any electronic recording devices with them. You can promise you will never ask her to do this kind of thing again (although she can suggest it), and never mention it. You could even ask the businessmen for a slightly better deal as your daughter's hospitality is thrown in.
Would you go for that deal? In Industry Giant 4.0 game obviously.
I've been watching the lastest episode of Yellowjackets. I've also watched Eyes Wide Shut and listened to Western Decline, and similar themes are there too.
Imagine you are a wealthy and successful businessman, with an attractive 17-year-old daughter, which is above the Age of Consent wherever you are.
Everyone in this thought experiment is your race.Your business is furniture manufacturing and you're doing well, but not big time. A significantly-bigger firm of furniture and homeware-sellers is expanding into your part of the country and talking to different furniture manufacturers in the area, looking to pick one for an average-sized contract for them, but a big one for you, which would level up your business if you got it.
You go to an expensive restaurant with them and your wife to talk the deal over and so you can all get a feel for each other. It's going well, and you think you're probably going to get the deal, but then your wife starts acting awkward and bitchy, fucks up the atmosphere, offends the businessmen and blows your chance.
A few months later you happen to meet these businessmen in an expensive hotel lobby while you are all travelling. Your daughter is with you but your wife is not. These businessmen are say in their late 30s, respectable, attractive, wealthy, well-dressed and in shape. They are married (to women), with children. You have since found out that they ended up picking another furniture manufacturer, who is objectively not as good as you.
You have an opportunity to approach the businessmen, apologise for last time, blame it on your wife's unfortunate mental illness, and try to make things up (remember you were getting on well before, until your wife spoilt it) and have another shot at the deal. You all know that your business is objectively a better choice, and they only went with the other one because they were offended. Maybe they were bluffing a little about how strong their position was too.
The question is: do you have a quiet word with your daughter? Let's say the contract would be worth £300,000 the first year, and probably more in future years if everything goes well. Do you ask her if she would like to 'hang out' with these businessmen (separately) in their hotel rooms, to help you get the deal? You could offer her a new car or a skiing holiday. Both even. Or something else like university costs, if that's expensive in your country. No one will find out.
You can search them before they enter the hotel room (for the first time), to make sure they don't have any electronic recording devices with them. You can promise you will never ask her to do this kind of thing again (although she can suggest it), and never mention it. You could even ask the businessmen for a slightly better deal as your daughter's hospitality is thrown in.Would you go for that deal?
In Industry Giant 4.0 game obviously.
