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How the Other Half Lives - zqwerty - 16-11-2023
"and the living is easy"
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jeff-bezos-lauren-nchez-just-205337532.html
RE: How the Other Half Lives - Lilith7 - 16-11-2023
"If he’ll take twenty five, I’ll do it for twenty. ‘No, me. I’m hungry. I’ll work for fifteen. I’ll work for food.'
And this was good, for wages went down & prices stayed up. The great owners were glad & they sent out more handbills to bring more people in. And wages went down & prices stayed up. And pretty soon now we’ll have serfs again.
And now the great owners invented a new method. A great owner bought a cannery. And when the peaches & pears were ripe he cut the price of fruit below the cost of raising it. And as cannery owner he paid himself a low price for the fruit & kept the price of canned goods up & took his profit."
John Steinbeck, The grapes of wrath
Its all happening again...
RE: How the Other Half Lives - Wainuiguy - 18-11-2023
(16-11-2023, 11:47 AM)zqwerty Wrote: "and the living is easy"
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jeff-bezos-lauren-nchez-just-205337532.html
The other half? Dont you mean the .000000000000001%?