Douglas Rushkoff vs. Wall Street

[Michael Bailey]

oh, and they were playing this mix tape, all day long, the high point of
which was Keith singing "Gotta walk before they make me run"

I looked forward to that.  Keith has a great voice!

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 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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