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-{{a|devil|}}{{quote|Show me the money.
+{{a|maxim|}}{{quote|“Show me the money.”
-:—Jerry Maguire}}
+:—''Jerry Maguire''}}
-If you want to forge a career in in professional services — if you want handsome fortune while sitting in a comfortable office,with beanbags, free taxis home after nine and the benign protection of a regional co-chair of employees cultural network, all you need do is ''keep your eye on the ball''.
+If you want to forge a career in in professional services — if you want to make handsome fortune while sitting in an ergonomic chair, with beanbags, a soft play area, free taxis home after nine and all under the benign protection of a health and safety secretariat — RSI is a bitch — all you need do is ''keep your eye on the ball''.
+===The ball===
+What is the word for a shibboleth that is an ancient principle for good reason? Because it taps a deep root in the cultural layer; that speaks to fundamental biological needs in a way that can’t be derived away. This is the “ball”.
-The “ball” is not the upshot of the employee survey, the mentoring program, pay parity, [[ESG]] credentials, workplace satisfaction, community teamworks — these things will come and go and doubtless vouchsafe lucky chancers a decent living — but the basic business of sensibly deploying capital in pursuit of sustainable return.
+The “ball” is not the upshot of the employee survey, the mentoring program, pay parity, [[ESG]] credentials, workplace satisfaction, community teamworks — these things will come and go, and their administration will doubtless vouchsafe some  lucky chancers a decent living — but the basic business of sensibly deploying capital in pursuit of sustainable return.
-Mark it: this has not changed since the industrial Revolution full stop this hasn't changed since the agricultural Revolution. This hasn't changed since the invention of the ''wheel''.
+The things without which, you know, ''nothing''.
+Activities that fulfil needs that have not changed since the Industrial Revolution — since the ''Agricultural Revolution''. Since the invention of the ''wheel''.
+The collection, allocation and application of scarce resources.
+One ancient proxy for all of these activities.
 [[This time is different|This time is ''not'' different]].
+===The information economy===
-Health and safety officers and, [[ceteris paribus]], co-ordinators of the employee cultural network will, insh’Allah, have been whacked in the meantime, but if what you do (aside from all that) is to ''look after is the prudent allocation of real capital to real risk''  —and if you are ''good'' at it — then nothing the information revolution can throw at you will hurt.
+Much of the modern professional services economy in second-order, and this order, proxies. Health and safety officers and, [[ceteris paribus]], co-ordinators of the employee cultural network will, insh’Allah, have been whacked in the meantime, but if what you do (aside from all that) is to ''look after is the prudent allocation of real capital to real risk''  —and if you are ''good'' at it — then nothing the information revolution can throw at you will hurt.
 For the most part the [[information revolution]] is a revolution of ''delivery''.