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Wage slaves

It’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding it.

Author Greg RavenPosted on August 10, 2012November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories truthTags Upton Sinclair

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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