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Bag’s Take-Away:
The New York Times Magazine asks a Bain Capital executive for his rationale on the validity of the 1%. The outcome is predictable. So is the clever visual assertion, via the faceless workers (that’s you and me, bub), that we owe our jobs to the creative powers of our financial betters.
And, frankly, where would we be without a shoe to shine?
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Goes with our recent post on Mark/FB taking over the world — or, at least, the G-8. The next phase in world domination: the mega-corps issuing their own currency. After that: Greece for sale?(illustration: Steven Noble.)
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