Friday, January 23, 2009

workers in the soviet union used to say: "we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us".
in the west, we pretend to work and they really do pay us. but they have to borrow the money. the more they borrow, the less it is worth. the chinese and the saudis want their interest paid on time, you see.

i saw my co-worker cutting some new corners off his work today. very clever. now i have to cut these corners to keep up with him. soon the whole village will be cutting corners and we will only have round things. who will buy my smooth round kabuki show?

the boss pretends the corners don't matter. his boss is aware of missing corners, but does not entirely understand them. he has glimpsed these newly smooth things, but is not sure what the corners were for. he is ashamed to admit he does not understand these newly smooth pebbles. how does it effect his bonus? is smooth better than sharp? 

Eureka! it was a safety issue all along! the village is saved! this is called "Reaganomics". 

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