I almost want to ask what you take me as. [ But he stops short of actually asking. The fun is in the play, in the mystery, or in any other number of things. Eventually, maybe very eventually, there will be a time to be blunt.

His stare kind of says it all though, because yeah he had no idea. Also what is capitalism proper? He sits up a bit trying to get a better sense of a topic he has little knowledge on. ]

A major employer of what, exactly? And I did, yeah. But it's not like I care for them in any formal way.