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Compelling Reasons Why Money Can’t Buy Happiness
“Money is necessary to invest in a business, but so is the passion that makes you happy. When you can identify what truly makes you happy and build your business around your passion, you increase the chances your business will be a success. As Marcus has said, ‘I’m a big believer that if you’re happy and your employees are happy, your customers are going to be happy. If you’re unhappy and your employees are unhappy, there’s no way your customers are going to be happy.’”
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“The middle class is like a buffer between the capitalist ruling class and the proletariat, often serving the interests of the former while believing they are defending the latter.”
— Karl Marx
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“The upper class keeps all the money, pays none of the taxes. The middle class pays all the taxes, does all the work. The poor are there… just to scare the s**t out of the middle class.”
— George Carlin
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“The problem of the working class is not merely the problem of ‘poverty’; it is the problem of being despised and neglected by the middle classes, who may sometimes ‘help’ them but never truly understand them.”
— George Orwell (from Road to Wigan Pier):
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“The modern Democratic Party is not the party of the poor, but of the professional class — a class that sees itself as a progressive force, but often promotes policies that benefit itself rather than the truly needy.”
— Thomas Frank (from Listen, Liberal)
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“The middle class is being systematically eviscerated… But the large part of the population is suffering from things that have nothing to do with the ‘middle class’.”
— Noam Chomsky
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“It’s not about dividing the country. It’s about bringing together the middle class, the working families of this country, the low-income people who have been ignored for far too long.”
— Bernie Sanders
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“Influencers rely on having an audience, while artists create for the sake of their art, regardless of who’s watching.”
— Do Not Destroy
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What is a catalytic converter and why do people keep stealing them? | CNN Business
“Often, there’s platinum, worth more than $1,000 an ounce, palladium, worth nearly as much, and rhodium, worth almost $5,000 per ounce. They react chemically with exhaust gases, breaking down compounds like carbon monoxide, nitrous oxides and small amounts of unburned fuel into less harmful substances.”
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San Francisco Takes on Makers of AI-Generated ‘Deepfake’ Pornography in Landmark Lawsuit | KQED
“The movement has left many people, including San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu, ‘horrified.’ On Wednesday, he announced that his office had filed a groundbreaking lawsuit against 16 of the largest websites that create and distribute nonconsensual AI-generated pornography, setting up a major test of the laws that currently govern the burgeoning technology.”
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“The greatest illusion the middle class holds is that they can ‘fix’ poverty from the outside, without ever understanding the lived experience of those within it.”
— Anonymous