How to explain the boldness of Costco? The DNA of its unusual founder, Jim Sinegal, is part of it. Another answer, from a stock analyst, was that the Issaquah company has developed a “cult following.”
It is amazing that this person, an ex-heroin addict who shared his habit with schoolmates, and peddler of falsehoods could be sitting in the president’s Cabinet as Secretary of Health and Human Services.
By this point — after the layoffs, the ghosted interviews, the algorithmic purgatory, the open-office utopianism, and the influencer prophets promising transformation through “mindset” — the truth becomes painfully clear: The system is exhausted, and so are the people in it.