How Many Friends Have You Lost?

"The only way you can distinguish yourself on the job is to out work, and otherwise outshine the people who are around you," he says. "If I don't support the teachers union, the same way I support the rod busters and the iron workers, if I don’t support public sector unions ... then I'm a bad guy." He asks: How many friends have you lost? How much drama has what we're talking about informed your existence in this field?"