Optimistic calling it "middle period" at this point.

This is so accurate. Like priests, business types possess a specialist knowledge that misrepresents an entirely made up complexity as arcane truth that the plebs could never understand.

Like priests, their real job is social control in service of the powerful. The early mesopotamian temples have some of the earliest examples of accounting because they were largely for craft production and resource storage and management.

And just like every delusional ceo, they claim responsibility for anything good that happens and blame others for anything bad.

Are we talking about the Spacing Guild?

if you wanna hang out, you've got to take her out

Cruelty Squad lore be like