Every paragraph is just
Bees, for those unschooled in entomology, are broken into three subsets: “Workers,” who build the hive, prepare the honey, and clean each other; “Queens,” who eat the honey and live in opulence; and “Wasps,” who fight wars at the queen’s behest and defend the hive from bears. If this sounds vaguely familiar, it should. It is nearly identical to the social structure that we as humans employ.
See how the worker bee corresponds fluidly to the human laborer. The queen, by contrast, could be mistaken for a member of our ruling class: Presidents, CEOs, publishers. The wasp is analogous to a soldier or boxer. Bears, in this case, can stand in for themselves, as they pose a grave threat to both species.
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I wonder if they used an LLM to generate this
I highly doubt it. The satire is very textually rich and you can tell they’ve put a lot of thought in - stuff like him throwing “publishers” onto the list of ruling class members in the excerpt I posted.
It would have been written by a heavily exploited ghost writer so it’s not surprising they’d throw some swipes in at the publisher when they can get away with it. There is an entertaining section of this video where the host both commissions a ghost written book and then later himself writes a self-help slop book under similar conditions to how this tie-in book would have been produced.
Ehhhh, I’ll watch the video later, but the joke is pretty clearly that Ricken has struggled with getting his books published, and is extrapolating the power they have over him to a society-wide class hierarchy.
Perhaps there’s a double meaning but if so the ghost writer obfuscated it to the point that I’m pretty sceptical.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: