There’s a lot of money in filling up conference centers with bodies. The amounts of money our clients spend on an event boggles my mind. So yes, everyone does have to host their little seminars so line can go up.

it pays and the kinds of people who get to do this spend their entire lives being gassed up and told that their place is one of merit and auspice so they act the part even when they're a braindead moron drooling t hemselves out on the floor while enabling horrific things domestically and abroad, they absolutely see themselves the enlightened protagonist and it's fucking infuriating.