16-03-2024, 06:15 PM
My eldest lives on the Coast. One or two chaps from Auckland went down there & bought up some ex state houses, did them up superficially (& cheaply) & then set about charged rents closer to those in Auckland...
Greed is probably the worst human characteristic.
‘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."
"The danger is here, for two men are not as lonely & perplexed as one. And from this first ‘we’ there grows a still more dangerous thing:”I have a little food” plus “I have none”.
The baby has a cold. Here, take this blanket. Its wool. It was my mother’s blanket – take it for the baby.
This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginning – from ‘I’ to ‘we."
The grapes of wrath.
John Steinbeck
Greed is probably the worst human characteristic.
‘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."
"The danger is here, for two men are not as lonely & perplexed as one. And from this first ‘we’ there grows a still more dangerous thing:”I have a little food” plus “I have none”.
The baby has a cold. Here, take this blanket. Its wool. It was my mother’s blanket – take it for the baby.
This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginning – from ‘I’ to ‘we."
The grapes of wrath.
John Steinbeck
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)