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haele

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2. Just a wink and a nod, and there you go - quid pro quo without anything made official.

Reply to xchrom (Reply #1)

Fri Apr 26, 2013, 02:40 PM

Apr 2013

Those little signals - like the laconically raised eyebrow when talking about "workers" or "customers", the negligent shrug when talking about the weighing the risks on who might be hurt on that big deal you made that got you a lot of compensation... that grin when talking about "just think about how much revenue we can deliver to the shareholders!"
It's easy to rig the system so long as most big decision making is kept within an ever-shrinking circle of wealth and power.

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