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discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,783 posts)
Sat Aug 30, 2025, 09:46 AM Aug 2025

Sound familiar? "The accumulation of great wealth...

...is, in many instances, the effect of paying too little for the labor that produced it, the consequence of which is that the working people perish in old age and the employer abounds in affluence." - Thomas Paine

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Sound familiar? "The accumulation of great wealth... (Original Post) discntnt_irny_srcsm Aug 2025 OP
I take Thomas Paine's 'Common Sense' on all plane flights. cayugafalls Aug 2025 #1
I used to fly almost every week. discntnt_irny_srcsm Aug 2025 #2

cayugafalls

(5,984 posts)
1. I take Thomas Paine's 'Common Sense' on all plane flights.
Sat Aug 30, 2025, 10:41 AM
Aug 2025

I like that sometimes it starts a conversation.

Talking with people is good.

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