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Banks did not domesticate law firms. Law firms domesticated banks.” | Banks did not domesticate law firms. Law firms domesticated banks.” | ||
:—Noah Yuval Harari, ''Legio Cadabra: A Brief History of The Magic Circle''}} | :—Noah Yuval Harari, ''Legio Cadabra: A Brief History of The Magic Circle''}} | ||
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{{drop|“T|he involvement of}} [[S&C]], which represents the FTX estate, has been controversial from the start. [[S&C]] lawyers had assisted the company in the chaotic days leading up to its bankruptcy filing — including preparing its petition and appointing Ray, a restructuring expert its lawyers knew well, as its new chief executive. A former S&C partner, Ryne Miller, was FTX US’s general counsel.”}} | {{drop|“T|he involvement of}} [[S&C]], which represents the FTX estate, has been controversial from the start. [[S&C]] lawyers had assisted the company in the chaotic days leading up to its bankruptcy filing — including preparing its petition and appointing Ray, a restructuring expert its lawyers knew well, as its new chief executive. A former S&C partner, Ryne Miller, was FTX US’s general counsel.”}}{{D|Law firm panel|lɔː fɜːm ˈpænᵊl|n|}}Proof that, far from being a seething pit of apex predation, the financial services industry is no more than an [[extended phenotype]] — a gruesome, metastasised [[spandrel]] illuminating the space between adjacent domes of legal excellence — that exists for the pleasure and enrichment of those saintly white-shoed attorneys who grace the serene frescoes overhead. | ||
====Docile ruminating masters of the universe. Yes.==== | |||
{{drop|T|he image of investment}} banks as docile, harnessed sauropods, munching stupidly away in the unwitting service of a higher caste of pan-dimensional superbeings seems far-fetched. But so does the idea of wheat bending the staggering intellect of humankind towards its merest biological ends, but that is what evolutionists would have us believe.<ref>others are still offering odds that thus is a deterministic crock, but that is another story.</ref> | {{drop|T|he image of investment}} banks as docile, harnessed sauropods, munching stupidly away in the unwitting service of a higher caste of pan-dimensional superbeings seems far-fetched. But so does the idea of wheat bending the staggering intellect of humankind towards its merest biological ends, but that is what evolutionists would have us believe.<ref>others are still offering odds that thus is a deterministic crock, but that is another story.</ref> | ||