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How the Other Half Lives
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16-11-2023, 11:47 AM
It's not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. The hundred-times-refuted theory of "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Nietzsche
"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...
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)
18-11-2023, 03:14 PM
(16-11-2023, 11:47 AM)zqwerty Wrote: "and the living is easy" The other half? Dont you mean the .000000000000001%? |
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