Soon, along with dozens of file drawers stuffed with the information he brought back, Lew had moved into his own office, at whose doorsill functionaries of government and industry presently began to appear, having surrendered their hats in the outer office, to ask respectfully for advice which Nate Privett kept a keen eye on the market value of.
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As we've really learned so well in this digital age, businesses make a lot of money by simply gathering and redistributing information. Lew is an expert at observing and Nate is taking advantage of that. Lew gathers intel on the front lines of the workers' movement while in disguise and Nate sells that information to the people who want to quash the movement. Lew is currently a middleman for helping to keep workers in abhorrent conditions although this sentence doesn't express Lew's attitude. We don't see exactly what information Lew is passing on. Will he sabotage the effort to destroy the striking workers or hold back? Does Lew even pick a side? Although, I suppose, if he chooses to not pick a side, he's picking the side of the powerful. Pretending you're above the fight doesn't make you intellectually superior because you refuse to get dragged into the conflict; it simply makes you a tool of the powers that be. They want you disinterested. They want you looking at more pleasant things. They, in fact, depend on it.
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