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jamenta's avatar

"We'll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost-effective."

~Kurt Vonnegut

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Brother🍓 Strawberry's avatar

“The good Earth - we could have saved it, but we were too damn cheap and lazy.”

Kurt Vonnegut Jr., A Man Without a Country.

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And it isn't the cashier at Walmart or the packager at Amazon.com that are "lazy" or "cheap". It's hard to walk into these stores these days, realize how hard everyone there is working, and not being compensated fairly for their work. America has become a cotton picking, slave wage economy. Where they want you to work for them until you die. Meanwhile, they got the mansions and the yacht and all the time in the world to vacation 6 months a year. Meritocracy my ass.

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