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by Cole Stryker · 14 Jun 2011 · 226pp · 71,540 words
audacity are prized as character traits. In Japan, they are often interpreted as rudeness or disrespect. It’s the culture of the salaryman, the lonely wage slave who lives to work, with the few social pleasures he allows himself often related to corporate team-building. The image of a salaryman is certainly
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by James Mahaffey · 15 Feb 2015
reactor was erased from the prairie, but the Hallum-type pump remains as a credible means of moving liquid sodium. 145 Walter worked as a “wage slave” at the Ford Motor Company starting in 1927. Henry Ford sent him to Nizhny, Novgorod, Soviet Union to help build a tractor factory, but he
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by Bruce Sterling · 31 May 1988 · 509pp · 137,315 words
stairs, I guess. While we keep the baby down here to wake our guests.” “I see what I see,” Sticky said. “You say, no more wage slaves, equal rights in the big mother Rizome. Everybody votes. No bosses—coordinators. No board—a Central Committee. But your wife still give orders and they
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by Jim Holt · 14 May 2018 · 436pp · 127,642 words
frequently used words, or very rich people) is followed by a low “long tail” (corresponding to a multitude of small towns, or rare words, or wage slaves). In such cases, the notion of “average” is meaningless. Mandelbrot absorbed Zipf’s law on the Métro ride home from his uncle’s. “In one
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by David Rakoff · 20 Sep 2010 · 181pp · 62,775 words
. She, in turn, would never know that the entire enterprise had been little more than a backfired prank, or that I was an over-entitled wage slave with absolutely no power and too wrapped up in my own aborted fantasies at the time to be of any help to anybody. And that
A Swamp Full of Dollars: Pipelines and Paramilitaries at Nigeria's Oil Frontier
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equally voraciously and without discrimination, like a great whale sifting for krill. On the Third Mainland Bridge, which led to the airport, executives and commuter wage slaves alike would have to be on the lookout for cars driving on the wrong carriageway to avoid night-time traffic jams. Not for nothing did
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by Margaret Atwood · 5 May 2003
which they were getting used up – wasn’t often. Crake said Uncle Pete got his real kicks at the office, bossing people around, whipping the wage slaves. He used to be a scientist, but now he was a large managerial ultra-cheese at HelthWyzer, on the financial end of things. So they
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by Benjamin Wallace · 18 Mar 2025 · 431pp · 116,274 words
least of my worries; I’d own an island or country somewhere and have a military to defend my assets, and not still be a wage slave.” Travis added that he was “allergic to exposure” and had “strong ethical concerns about/against being involved with cryptocurrency” and pointed me toward an essay
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for the Soul®, 100+ million copies sold “Stunning and amazing. From mini-retirements to outsourcing your life, it’s all here. Whether you’re a wage slave or a Fortune 500 CEO, this book will change your life!” —PHIL TOWN, New York Times bestselling author of Rule #1 “The 4-Hour Workweek
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by Clive Hamilton and Richard Denniss · 31 May 2005
had accumulated while he was riding his steed to work. The message is clear to the most inattentive of viewers: even a nine-to-five wage slave can live out cowboy fantasies and appeal to attractive women if he buys a large, inefficient and expensive car to crawl through peak hour traffic
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