On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of @lastunicorn40, I decided to walk down memory lane to the (authorized!) Chicago storefront stage version of the novel I had the privilege to put on in 2009...
@MollyJongFast@devahaz Actual humans - even wealthy ones- have sticky lives. They want to live where their friends are, go to the places they already know and enjoy, not disrupt the social circle and education of their family, etc. Easy to threaten to move in response to taxes, much harder to do it.
@benryanwriter Isn’t under inclusion of some people who deserve it worse than over inclusion of some people who don’t? If the system isn’t going to work perfectly (and what system does?) I’d rather it be biased towards inclusion than biased towards shutting people out.
@jayvanbavel@jonfavs Does anyone else find that unbearably irritating? Like I don’t need it to fluff me, I know it’s not a person and I don’t care about its tone.
@Stephanie_Skora It was easy, the tell is always “I own my own business, which means that I totally am going to be an expert at doing this complicated completely different thing for which I have no expertise or applicable experience” like e.g. running a school system
@seandoherty In case it was discussed in rehearsal: are we to understand that Brad has lost his mind, or that he truly is infused with some kind of toxic masculine/“hero” force that opposes Dentata?
@TVietor08 I would think a private firm hired for this purpose has an incentive to approve dicey people so long as the administration wants them. Kind of like the ratings firms before the financial crisis