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The Leisure Class Is Winning. The Rest of Us Are Suffering.

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If the sanitation workers disappear, it would be an unholy mess, our cities unlivable. Why is the baseball player paid so highly while the sanitation worker is not?

Christopher Ketcham
Christopher Ketcham
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