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raouldukelives

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21. The "bad people" are paid, quite well I hear, to be bad.

Tue Dec 1, 2015, 10:21 AM

Dec 2015

Doing good works generally doesn't make much cash. But figuring out small ways to inconvenience us for an extra 1/10th of a cent per transaction? Of helping to fund lobbyists wrangling for leverage with complicit politicians and government agencies? Of sharing in the push for and the profits from war by being partial owner of defense contractors? Of adding their own voice to the chorus of voices singing for profits over progress?

Generations of bright toothed salesmen pitching think tank proposals meant to deceive, in just a tiny amount this one time, for themselves. Hey, no biggie. Well, after awhile, they start to add up to a big mess for those who are born into it. Unless of course, they are born into the ownership class. Then may they never know the horrors they unleash upon the least of this world.

"Some are born to sweet delight."

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