Shell game.

Money moves too many times, like the pebbles under the shells. So that's a deflection so people don't see who's serving whom. Every time someone thinks they can remember what's under a shell before it's shuffled, they move it really fast, and like with feints. And of course this doesn't work for real, hands aren't fast enough, so you gotta layer it with like something to injure their eye with a flash while they're looking, say a laser to the pupil, or maybe...

You could make a little trapdoor for the pebble provided the guy will not ask which shell the pebble was actually in. So deflect all questions.

But the end outcome is servitude comes from all over the world to an American banker, an American doctor, and an American executive. There's a few others. But the long tail of the American middle class? That was only necessary because those bankers, doctors and executives would never themselves (or with their sons) man the nuclear ballistic submarines, dogfight jets, aircraft carriers, CIA undercover agents, and especially infantrymen--never never never infantrymen. I've only heard of a single lonely guy becoming an enlisted man in a high-bullets-flying environment, when he could have gone anywhere--from Philips Exeter in fact. Anecdotal.

Yeah undercover agents get wrapped up and tortured, but infantrymen are bullet sponges. Riflemen, holy shit. WW2 riflemen, no let's not talk about that. At least spies there's a whole song and dance to the whole thing, part two of 1984, and speaking as someone who's stood up to torture, there's not the immediacy of the infantry where the brain surgery is much messier. Well on second thought it's not that different from getting rocks thrown at you, like I have this year...

Listen. So this is what's up. There's these guys, they eat all this work and don't do anything. Doctors don't do anything. They only use 5% of what they learned, the rest being a masochistic filter the elders imposed on the youngers to keep them from bringing them down to human reality with competition. So morally a doctor should only study for 1 year, not 20 (if not less, because of retention). That's five percent! Don't argue with that part, argue with something else!

And then plus surgeons, spesh brain surgeons which is what every medical student "wants to be when he grows up" as elder doctors put it, so the thing there is younger surgeons have much better manual dexterity than older surgeons, you can't do it past your fifties generally. What does that mean? Learn it faster! But no, they have to say "I studied for 20 years to tell you my bullshit" like come on, that's masochism. You spent 1 year learning worthwhile things and 19 years in the medical school "slammer" learning to be a good bitch, that's the whole game in medicine, hazing. Because otherwise people would say hey just pump out more doctors then the doctors have to say "nonono, you can't because it's soooooo expensive to make a doctor and America loses money [pretends to lose money] on training doctors and you have to be the absolute best of the best of the best to learn how to multiply 3-digit numbers".

It's so so stupid, especially because of this: it's all multiple choice. All of it. It's all multiple choice. No essays or explanations, just filling in black circles. I have contempt for using that form of testing alone because I'm so good at it with no effort. Like not even doing the reading. Show up "naked", a good enough mathematician should be able to learn from the test itself, from NOTHING, NOWHERE, and NOBODY. Destroy the integrity of these measurements. Get the test to leak the answers. Like I could do it in Chinese [I don't read Kanji, I can only make out Oracle Bones from 2600 BC] and be measurably better than a monkey. I don't generally brag about it because I have no respect for it, like not having respect for torture. But if that's the underlying reason some doctor claims to be better than me? If such a doctor says he's better than me, then let us agree we are not equal.