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Cerridwen

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4. Ah, hell; "It's just business; nothing personal."

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Sun Mar 17, 2013, 05:17 PM

Mar 2013

What a great saying that is. It justifies all kinds of wondrous and profitable moves by our betters. Just think what it must be like to treat people and their money as nothing more than pawns in the great capitalistic game of markets with invisible hands.

"It's just business; nothing personal."

Coool! Isn't it?

Oh, and for the sarcasm impaired, I have a present.

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