emailing in a semi-literate manner isn’t a sign of stupidity, it’s another form of rich asshole arrogance because you don’t think you owe anyone coherent thoughts
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couldn't , agree more
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100%. Bad grammar and no punctuation is all about flex.
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Is this why they love having LLMs write emails and posts for them? Because they already never bothered to "write" them in the first place?
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this is conformal with my conjecture that billionaires experience and may seek out a progressive limitation of consciousness in which they become increasingly decoupled to qualia
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This is not new. In grad school, cataloged a professor's trove of Irish police reports from the 1830s. The higher the rank/social status, the worse the handwriting. Lowly beat cops wrote painstakingly clearly. 'You MUST read what I say, serf.' 'Must make it easy for The Boss.'
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💯💯💯
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Like Elon
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There also seems to be a thing that if someone is good at science/tech or maths*, it's almost expected that their literacy is poor. All of their genius is hard science, they don't have time or bandwidth for mere soft communication skills, etc.
*or investing in science/tech
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Also it means they were close. People only do that with people they know well.
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Not thinking you owe anyone a coherent thought is a sign of stupidity
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This assumes they had coherent thoughts to begin with. Not much evidence of that.
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Exactly! “Let them guess what I’m trying to say! I’m too important to bother with spelling, grammar, coherence. That’s a loser’s game.” It’s all part of their sense of entitlement.
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100%
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It's the same reason tech billionaires dress in ratty hoodies and scuffed sneakers.
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It's been suggested the poor grammar and spelling were because although the texts were sent to and from email addresses they were composed on his Blackberry.
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right, the elite version of "doctor's handwriting is illegible on the charts & Rx"
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It can certainly be both.
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had bosses at old jobs write this way -- shortness to show busy-ness, but not enough words to convey a thought/decision and just enough to cause confusion (and extra work) for underlings
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Preach!
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The way he wrote has been reminding me all day of a former boss, and you've just put the pieces together for me!
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They don't need to worry about being careful to always behave and write professionally for everything work related.
They don't have to worry about showing they deserve to be there.
It's such a mark of entitlement.
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im still going to think you're severely lacking in intelligence
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Anyone else freaking out about all the Kathy Ruemmler emails?? she was Obama's white house counsel at the time she's email buddies, talking policy with Jeff
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yes but a lot of people have come away from conversations with Epstein suggesting that he was in fact a dumbass
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💯 I used to have high net worth residential architecture clients—some of the most intelligent and accomplished people—whose cryptic emails of random word strings I had to decipher like I was an archeologist interpreting cave paintings.
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I am angered when the speaker expects the listener to tell the story, fill in the blanks, deduce the unspoken antecedents for their pronouns. They just talk about "that guy" who did "the thing" over "there", or just say "you know".
No. I don't know. I don't know until you tell me.
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Rich people have staff who are supposed to anticipate their desires without being told. They are out of the habit of expressing themselves.
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can confirm its the same in tech. People communicate poorly over email as a flex
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That these emails ever existed demonstrates these people have the opsec of newborn kittens, and given how the Swamp works I'd presume Palantir had all these people owned before say Gamergate popped off. Makes me wonder if I need to reinterpret a few things
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Yep.
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Also leaves room to disavow and deny meaning.
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Add in that a good percentage of these creeps were consistently day drinking or semi-high.
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💯🎯
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And impossible to quote coherently. Control of what you say after you say it, not before. That's why 🍊💩 has been yammering in fragments and digressions for so many years. Just a little bit of obscured meaning and you evade responsibility for what you've said and anyone being able to hold you to it.
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This is how VCs respond to emails too
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Yeah, this has been a regional manager flex for decades. Tell by looking at him Larry Summers is that kind of dude.
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A real peach.
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The rich love their symbolism
If they could hide from the rest of the world and have tiny meetings alone, together, they would
The ultra wealthy decides who lives and who dies in stuffy meeting rooms that you or I never get to attend
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I wouldn’t dismiss a half-assed self-defense tactic…
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I'm always amazed that people can spend years in education and reach adulthood not knowing or caring how to write/spell properly.
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Perhaps, but emailing with your rich buddies abt the sex crimes you have been committing sure as shit is stupid. 🤷♂️
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Also demonstrates how Epstein was able to talk on Trump’s level.
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Innit?
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Michael Wolff was on The Daily Beast and seemed a bit defensive.
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It’s like, you organize my thoughts for me, pleb; I’ve got much more important, rich-people things to do
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Why not both? 🤷🏻♀️
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I’ve noticed this!
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Dude was a teacher as well. Credentialed by the Barr family.
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No acolytes ever says WTAF, dude? Too scared to be branded stupid for not understanding their stream of consciousness(?) rantings and becoming the joke at the next get-together.
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My experience also! It's nice to know you (and others?) noticed the same.
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the vibe I get is arrogant asshole too busy to punctuate. 🙄
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It's also a sign of semi-literacy.
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Yeah i have seen this enough from people at the top. It is not a sign of dyslexia or drugs per se. It is very common and very annoying done by people who think very highly of themselves
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It’s nudge nudge wink wink code talk.
Excuse me, but fuckers. Entitled fucks. Monsters.
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Really amazing how much of success in the USA amounts to "habitually offload the work of interpreting, organizing and managing everything onto others"
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I maintain that many of these rich assholes are poorly educated because they pay others to do the work: writing papers, taking exams, etc.
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Unfortunately, the causal direction is clear and one-way. You can't become an oligarch by practicing incoherence.
On the other hand, there are probably self-help books claiming you can.
Maybe I need an LLM to translate my e-mails into plutocratese.
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Exactly my thoughts. instead of well formed sentences, they type stream of consciousness jargon and expect people to interpret rather than spending the time to write it coherently. entitled
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We had a board member who was an old-school billionaire venture capitalist. His nickname was “the sphinx” because he only spoke in 2-word sentences that were at best tangential to the topic at hand. It was up to us to interpret his deep thoughts and put them into action lol
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The job of interpreting someone’s ungrammatical nonsense is for your assistant, ofc.
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LMAO the amount of curating I have to do to every email or message for work vs this boomer white guy energy once again tells me I am over qualified and underpaid.
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“YOU figure it out”
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It can be both.
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Why not both?
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I got to a point where if a boss sent me an email saying, "Look at this" with no context, I spammed it.
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Everyone should read the Mother Jones article “I called every number in Jeffrey Epsteins little black book”. It appears Epstein was actually a stupid man he just collected smart people and because he had money and influence in bad places-he could….
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this!!
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Baby-talk for equals.
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More to the point, because as far as you’re concerned, coherent thoughts don’t exist.
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Honestly it's a power move that everyone should do.
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You're way too busy and important and efficient to use subjects AND verbs.
