Getting The "Short End"?


	Getting The "Short End"?

motheroak

7-4-2009 4:25 PM

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work, career, values, thought

motheroak says:

The obscenity of exchanging the most precious commodity on earth--your time--for little slips of green paper and thinking you've been justly compensated for the loss.

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