Douglas Rushkoff vs. Wall Street

[Michael Bailey]

it sort of reminds me about this temp job I had in like 1980, we were in
this nice warehouse, well lit and air conditioned, unloading these trucks
full of these like laser paintings or something, very glossy, all the same,
like a picture of a boat on the ocean

and they were sorta nice

but the schtick was, in the front of the warehouse there was this sales
office and a crew went out door to door moving these things for like 29
bucks apiece - high enough that the top dude was bragging in front of us,
the temps, about how he had just bought a 100 thousand dollar CD, but low
enough that more than likely the poor homeowner would buy one just to get
rid of the salesdude or dudette...

he offered the other temp guy a job in sales but I'm sure I was a little too
scruffy and perhaps my attitude was plain,

anyway, that's what I conceptualize Wall Street as - they're sellin' stuff
and makin' money but it ain't any too great of stuff imho and there's like
this mutual disinterest...

now, a nice 4% tax free muni bond, that's another story!
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