See the rich get, rich, the poor get poor
Jump up and grab the nina son you gotta get yours
so somehow, the rich really are getting rich. i recall reading a few weeks ago something about the richest people beeing even more rich because some had reinvested their wealth elsewhere and caked off after the dot-com bust and 9/11 had weakened some of their holdings. so now, Forbes is talking about the richest 400 Americans are ALL billionaires.
what.the.fuq. i cannot even fathom it.
We plantin seeds that don't grow back
While the black still shining like Kojak
You ain't never gave a shT, yo we OWNED that
Monopolize the whole game and control that
Five of the local colleges announced the Step Up partnership to work on improving the district's underperforming schools. Timing is everything, huh? Can I just say that The Wire has not let me down. So many hidden messages, double entrendes, and the like. From the way Marlo looked at son in the when he refused the loot and looked down but made eye contact when necessary. To the way the Senator would take anybody's money if they were giving it away. To the way Bubbles' intern was holding back the hustle. All a microcosm of hodds across America. Literally, no other television show has me so enraptured by it. Sitcoms are just on some funny shT, but this shT is real life. It may be a fictional drama, but do believe shT is parallel to life. Would you believ a fiht breaks out as I'm leaving one high school yesterday and then shots get busted neary this morning. Coincidence? Who knows. But I can see the same thign happening on the show. It's like a electric uncertainty that art is imitating life which is in turn imitating art. Like recidivism I guess. Which reminds me, I need to make that field trip to South Bay soon. ok, this Wire shT is gonna have to morph into their own separate posts. cuz now i'm rambling.
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I'm currently reading White-Collar Sweatshop by Jill Andresky Fraser, and early on it cited an interesting stat:
"The only segment of the white-collar community that has truly seemed exempt from salary pressures these days is the American chief executive officer, a rare breed whose median salary plus bonuses grew by a whopping 44.6 percent during those otherwise cost-conscious years of 1989 through 1997. When his (and occasionally her) additional forms of compensation are factored in - gains from exercised options, gifts of restricted stock, and other forms of long-term incentive awards - that increase looked even higher: 71 percent during the years from 1992 to 1997 alone." (46)
She mentioned that during this time, many other professionals saw their pay shrink.
Very interesting book so far. I first found out about it when IEEE Spectrum reviewed it a few years back.
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