“Larry [Summers] leaned back in his chair and offered me some advice. I had a choice. I could be an insider or I could be an outsider. Outsiders can say whatever they want.
But people on the inside don’t listen to them. Insiders, however, get lots of access and a chance to push their ideas. People — powerful people — listen to what they have to say. But insiders also understand one unbreakable rule: they don’t criticize other insiders.”
Elizabeth Warren, A Fighting Chance
I was thinking of this, at first, in terms of politics, but the more I think of it, the more true it is of practically everything. There is a group in control and they don’t care to listen to those who are not in the group.