April 14th, 2010 / 11:45 am
Music & Web Hype

Playing connect-the-dots with two dots just gets you a straight line

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Most of the work in this world completely sucks balls and the only reward most people get for their work is just barely enough money to survive, if that. The 95% of people out there who spend all day long shoveling the dogshit of life for subsistence wages are basically keeping things running just well enough so that David Brooks, me and the rest of that lucky 5% of mostly college-educated yuppies can live embarrassingly rewarding and interesting lives in which society throws gobs of money at us for pushing ideas around on paper (frequently, not even good ideas) and taking mutual-admiration-society business lunches in London and Paris and Las Vegas with our overpaid peers.

Matt Taibbi, responding to David Brooks’s claim that “for the first time in human history, rich people work longer hours than middle class or poor people.”

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs

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36 Comments

  1. Salvatore Pane—

      Fuckin’ rainbows after it rains.

      Recognize.

  2. Salvatore Pane—

      Fuckin’ rainbows after it rains.

      Recognize.

  3. Salvatore Pane—

      This is it. Face paint from the local party store and leftover CGI from Seaquest DSV have combined to create the greatest music video of all time.

  4. Salvatore Pane—

      This is it. Face paint from the local party store and leftover CGI from Seaquest DSV have combined to create the greatest music video of all time.

  5. Schylur Prinz—

      I’m surprised it took so many days for that ICP video to make it here…

  6. Schylur Prinz—

      I’m surprised it took so many days for that ICP video to make it here…

  7. Justin Taylor—

      It’s cuz we were at AWP. There were miracles all up in that bitch.

  8. Justin Taylor—

      It’s cuz we were at AWP. There were miracles all up in that bitch.

  9. mimi—

      awesome, catchy, funny, life affirming, love

      And Matt Taibbi rocks in his own yuppie bad boy lucky 5% way.

  10. mimi—

      *first line refers to the vid

  11. mimi—

      awesome, catchy, funny, life affirming, love

      And Matt Taibbi rocks in his own yuppie bad boy lucky 5% way.

  12. mimi—

      *first line refers to the vid

  13. Justin Taylor—

      you don’t think taibbi is life-affirming? :)

  14. Justin Taylor—

      you don’t think taibbi is life-affirming? :)

  15. mimi—

      Well, I suppose a lot of chicks would like to mate with an intelligent, good-looking, lucky 5% bad boy, so I guess you could call that “life-affirming”.
      Feels kinda sexist writing that, which normally I try not to be.

  16. mimi—

      Well, I suppose a lot of chicks would like to mate with an intelligent, good-looking, lucky 5% bad boy, so I guess you could call that “life-affirming”.
      Feels kinda sexist writing that, which normally I try not to be.

  17. anon—

      Mimi, you haven’t personally consulted every woman in the world! There might be [a certain number] who disagree or are lesbians! Ahhhh!!!!!!!????!!!!??!!!!!!!

  18. anon—

      Mimi, you haven’t personally consulted every woman in the world! There might be [a certain number] who disagree or are lesbians! Ahhhh!!!!!!!????!!!!??!!!!!!!

  19. mimi—

      OK. Sorry.
      By “a lot” I meant, say, 10%.

  20. mimi—

      OK. Sorry.
      By “a lot” I meant, say, 10%.

  21. anon—

      “joke”

  22. anon—

      “joke”

  23. Jak Cardini—

      Man, that ICP vid is EVERYWHERE

  24. Jak Cardini—

      Man, that ICP vid is EVERYWHERE

  25. drew kalbach—

      juggalo mysticism

  26. drew kalbach—

      juggalo mysticism

  27. Amber—

      I was so fucking pissed when I saw that Brooks column. Matt Taibbi made it *almost* all better.

  28. Amber—

      I was so fucking pissed when I saw that Brooks column. Matt Taibbi made it *almost* all better.

  29. (not) Brent Newland—

      while we’er on the subject of jokes, here’s one from the archive:

      what did one penny say to the other penny

      lets get together and make some cents

  30. (not) Brent Newland—

      while we’er on the subject of jokes, here’s one from the archive:

      what did one penny say to the other penny

      lets get together and make some cents

  31. (not) Brent Newland—

      man theres a lot of class rage at this site (i dont have to worry about it cause im rich as fuck from slinging rock)

  32. (not) Brent Newland—

      (i aslo work at best buy auto dep.t to supplament my income)

  33. (not) Brent Newland—

      man theres a lot of class rage at this site (i dont have to worry about it cause im rich as fuck from slinging rock)

  34. (not) Brent Newland—

      (i aslo work at best buy auto dep.t to supplament my income)

  35. anon—

      Are ICP in the 5% or the 95%? ICP sell mad merch. They’re doing okay.

  36. anon—

      Are ICP in the 5% or the 95%? ICP sell mad merch. They’re doing okay.