Second Bloom
They talk about his client visit — the four-generation hotel, which turned out to be more complicated than expected because the third generation and the fourth generation have fundamentally different ideas about what the next hundred years should look like.
"Which generation is right?" Valentina asks.
"The fourth," he says, without hesitating. "But the third built everything the fourth is standing on. So they're both right and the argument is actually about something else."
"About credit," Valentina says.
"About fear of being irrelevant," he says. "Which is what most arguments are actually about, if you go one level deeper."
Valentina sets down her fork. Looks at him. In forty-five years and
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