May, 2013 archive
Plastic People 0
At the Guardian, Hadley Freeman contemplates the rise and fall of cosmetic surgery “procedures” and wonders what’s to come.
What people are willing to have done to themselves can really be quite gruesome.
The Fee Hand of the Market 0
The rich are different from you and me.
The rich get richer, succeed or fail.
You and me, we get rewarded with “miles” we can’t use if we fly.*
The similarity ends there. Johnson, 54, got a compensation package worth 1,795 times the average wage and benefits of a U.S. department store worker when he was hired in November 2011, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Gonzales’s hourly wage was $8.30 that year.
More differences at the link.
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*Some conditions, which make those miles worthless, may apply.