The Browser - Managerial Heist

The Managerial Class Has No Future

Peter Wei | Ecumene | 8th March 2025

Unlike traditional elites who can pass down land, family businesses, or social networks, this class’s only transferable asset is earning potential, which their children must re-earn through education and training. Education has become more expensive; professional training is lasting longer — “a wage cut by other means”. “The result is a class that, despite its high incomes and social prestige, is unsustainable” (1,700 words)

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The Great Hobby Lobby Artefact Heist

Meghan Boilard | Off-Topic | 12th March 2025

In 2010, thousands of cuneiform texts were smuggled into Oklahoma City, to the headquarters of evangelical arts and crafts empire Hobby Lobby. The Green family, Hobby Lobby’s owners and one of the largest donors to Evangelical causes, were creating an interactive museum on biblical history. Their ethically questionable, bulk acquisition of over 40,000 relics shook the artefact market as a whole (4,400 words)

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