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 Look, kids: keeping schtum about your frailties isn’t a ''travesty''. It’s ''common sense''. It’s ''personal branding 101''. ''It is what people do''.
-The [[JC]] will spare his usual [[Nietzsche|Nietzschean]] quotes about [[military life]], apposite though they are: suffice to say, there is nothing quite like a good “shoeing” at the bottom of the ruck every now and then to stouten a young attorney’s fibre. It builds a kind of resilience that whining about mental health on [[LinkedIn]] never will.
+The [[JC]] will spare his usual [[Nietzsche|Nietzschean]] quotes about [[military life]], apposite though they are: suffice to say, there is nothing quite like a good “shoeing” at the bottom of a ruck every now and then to stouten a young attorney’s fibre. It builds a kind of [[Antifragile|resilience]] that whingeing about mental health on [[LinkedIn]] never will.
-In any case, a better question is this: what sort of person regards ''any part'' of the [[Magic circle law firm|big law military industrial complex]] — even its front-line of callow inductees — with even a twinge of sympathy? The same sorts of people who would cuddle polar bears, that’s who. They don’t tend to last long.
+In any case, a better question is this: what sort of person regards ''any part'' of the [[Magic circle law firm|big law military industrial complex]] — even its front-line of callow inductees — with even a twinge of sympathy? The same sorts who would cuddle polar bears, that’s who. They don’t last long.
 For, really: what do you think ''happens'' to those cute little Kirkland & Ellis cubs when they grow up? Have you not seen ''Stranger Things''?
-The Harvard Law School careers office is not the Russian front. These poor little lambs were not conscripted, press-ganged, nor marched at gunpoint down to barracks at Latham & Watkins.
+The Harvard Law School careers fair is hardly the Russian front. These “poor little lambs” we hold in contemplation were not conscripted, press-ganged, nor marched at gunpoint down to the Latham & Watkins barracks.
-To the contrary, these little blighters spent years clambering over each other to get to where they are now. This was their one goal, their guiding, blinding light. ''These people are trained killers''. They ''eat'' the weak. They are ''motivated'' to this penury. They ''want'' it. They understand, the way LinkedIn grandees seem not to, that ''[[Military school of life|what does not kill you makes you stronger]]''. Oh, dear: we promised to spare the [[Nietzsche]] quotes, didn’t we.
+To the contrary, these little blighters spent years climbing over each other to get to where they are. This was their one goal: their guiding, blinding light. ''These people are trained killers''. They ''eat'' the weak. They are ''motivated'' to this penury. They ''want'' it. Five years of trench warfare is ''part of their plan''. They understand, the way [[LinkedIn|LinkedIn grandees]] seem to have forgotten, that ''[[Military school of life|what does not kill you makes you stronger]]''. Whoops: we promised to spare the [[Nietzsche]] quotes, didn’t we.
-Five years of trench warfare is ''part of their plan''.
+And remember, these babes-in-arms — armed babies, at any rate — are [[Charge-out rate|charged out]], from the moment they put down their joss-sticks and hacky-sacks and climb into the power-suit, at ''five hundred bucks an hour''. And they know ''nothing''. Their work is then triple-checked by some slightly older cherub who is paid ''nine'' hundred bucks an hour and knows barely any more. You are paying an effective rate of sixteen hundred bucks an hour for a kid you’d think twice about letting walk your dog.
-And remember, these babes-in-arms — armed babies, at any rate — are [[Charge-out rate|charged out]], from the moment they put down their joss-sticks and hacky-sacks and climb into the power-suit, at ''five hundred bucks an hour''. And they know ''nothing''. Their work is thus triple-checked by some slightly older cherub who is paid ''nine'' hundred bucks an hour and knows barely any more. You are paying an effective rate of sixteen hundred bucks an hour a kid you wouldn’t trust to look after your car.
+It was, as we old lags are prone to say, ever ''thus''. Our [[Libtard|liberal metropolitan mores]] may wax and wane, but “ever thus” will it ''remain''. The career path of commercial lawyering is not, never has been, and never will be, for [[Die Schweizer Heulsuse|milksop]]<nowiki/>s. Those who have clambered over enough scuffling bodies to earn a [[big law]] training contract has, we presume, a deliberative faculty, and options, even in a tight labour market.
-It was, as we old lags are prone to say, ever thus. Our [[Libtard|liberal metropolitan mores]] may wax and wane, but ever thus it will ''remain''. The career path of commercial lawyering is not, never has been, and never will be, for milksops. Those who have clambered over enough scuffling bodies to earn a [[big law]] training contract has, we presume, a deliberative faculty, and options, even in a tight labour market.
 If you don’t like hard work, young sir or madam, ''find something else to do''. You’ll cope.
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 *[[Molesworth]]
 *[[Law firm]]
+*[[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzsche]]
+*[[Antifragile]]