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LanternWaste

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11. I suppose my reaction to his bill would be the approximate same reaction...
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 05:50 PM
Feb 2013

I suppose my reaction to his bill would be the approximate same reaction a subsistence farmer from Rwanda would have to my recent $850 mechanic's bill, and I suppose that same farmer would be justified (morally and statistically) to frame me as part of the world's 1%.

His repair bill is about 25 times what I make in a year. My repair bill is about 50 times what the subsistence farmer makes. I'm in no position to judge Mr. Atkinson's sins, as mine are different only by degrees...

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