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Ted Rall - Monday August 31, 1998 Comic Strip Licensing and Permissions

Ted Rall - Monday August 31, 1998 Comic Strip
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The goal of business is to make products as cheaply as possible (Man: My proposal is t eliminate quality) (Woman: I'd kiss you if it were legal.) The business that's cheapest eventually corners the market (Man 2: Isn't that the detergent that blew up our washer?) (Man 3: Yeah, but you save $0.14 per ounce!) The thing is, making things cheaply means skimping on design and aesthetics, so things get uglier and uglier. People see all the ugly stuff around them and start to feel ugly themselves. Ugly people think less of themselves, leading to their accepting lower wages. (Man 1: $5 an hour! I'm the king) Whoever said capitalism was inefficient? (Man: We've got people paying for nothing and working for free... what's next?) (Woman: Keep working the ugly angle)