Working Life

The tender landscape of art can often obscure labor nastiness, and stupidity, that rivals anything you’d find in the corporate world, with stupidity and greed part of the mix (take Arianna Huffington, grand narcissist, who is happy to leach off writers and make tens of millions along the way). Welcome to the New York Metropolitan Opera, folks, which, true to form, is trying to lay blame on its workers and threatening a lock-out, when mismanagement has been the order of the day.

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