question:  What is the best description of what “The Si” creates within the Condé Nast magazines?
context: Let Si Get This During a typical lunch time at the Royalton Hotel restaurant in midtown Manhattan, The New Yorker 's Tina Brown might be installed at her usual table, and Vogue 's Anna Wintour might be at her usual table (chewing on her usual meal--a $25 hamburger). Filling out the room are other editors, publicists, and writers from these magazines and GQ and House & Garden and so on. Some of the lesser fry may even utter the Condé Nast mantra--though it is hardly necessary at the Royalton--as they grab for the check: "Let Si get this." S.I. "Si" Newhouse Jr. and his younger brother, Donald, control Advance Publications, one of America's largest privately held companies. Donald tends to Advance's hugely profitable newspaper, radio, and TV holdings. These are the 15 Condé Nast magazines, including (in descending order of fabulousness) Vogue , Vanity Fair , GQ , Condé Nast Traveler , House & Garden , Allure , Details , Self , Mademoiselle , and Glamour ; ; and Random House. The expense-account lunch is a hallowed journalistic tradition. It's a closed economy where almost all human needs and desires can be gratified with a miraculous, unlimited currency called the Si. The magazines account for more than a quarter of daytime revenues at the Four Seasons and the Royalton. But Si's generosity extends to even assistants and sub-sub-editors, dining on sushi at their desks. If you spend $10 or less on lunch, and claim you were working, Si pays. At Vogue and Vanity Fair , almost everyone has a "working lunch" every day . An editor at Allure says that "working lunches" there are limited to 10 a month. (One of my favorite Condé Nast stories is of an editor who had just been promoted to an extremely senior job.
output:  A closed economy
options:  A closed economy  A culture of guilt surrounding what it takes to put out a magazine  A culture of partiers who aren’t interested in getting their work done  A series of mantras that teach reckless spending