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"Is it? I mean, if you have the permission to hand out, it seems reasonable to be able to delegate it, and once you can do that..."

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"I guess that makes sense. So it's more like--nepotism than overt commodification?"

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"Oh, I think it'd be hard to find someone with permissions who wanted to sell me one outright. Those people just sell them to whoever they're for. And nobody with blue permissions is poor."

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"If it's like delegation, why only other blues? The internet seems to think there are a bunch of yellows in government too, if not in the same roles..."

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"Well, some people have their staff do the detail work, or even agree to award a permission to whoever makes employee of the year at their favorite restaurant or something, but it's still a blue's name on the permission."

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"But if someone delegates it to you it's your name on it?" 

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"Depends how. A present, it's my name on it. If someone's like, recommend me a nice purple family, then it's theirs."

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"I see. So how did you use your present?" 

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"Oh, this is kind of embarrassing actually, I had this purple friend online..."

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"I don't think that's embarrassing! What's the use of nepotism if you can't use it to help people you care about?" 

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"Well, he didn't really talk to me again after he had it."

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"Oh. I guess he kinda sucks then." 

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"You do what you gotta do, I guess, but I wish I'd just auctioned it or given it to whoever landscapes that nice park near my house."

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"It's--I wouldn't--I can see why someone would resort to that, I guess, but it's a shitty thing to resort to regardless." 

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"I'm not sure why he even suspected I might have one. Maybe he stopped talking to fifty people I didn't even know about."

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"It's still awful." 

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Shrug.

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"You can't just--pretend to care about someone for material gain and then drop them when you've gotten what you want, how can you ever trust someone who does that?" 

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"I assume he doesn't care if I trust him, at this point."

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"I guess probably there's no way for the people he does care if they trust him to know what happened." 

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"Maybe they figure he wouldn't do that to anybody who wasn't blue. That's what I'd figure."

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"Ugh. Plausible." 

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Shrug.

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"It's just the kind of thing that really bothers me, I guess. I try hard to filter my inner circle for it, but..." 

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"Well. I guess make it clear you're not really blue and aren't going to have permissions to hand out."

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