And certain warehouse workers had their pay docked for spending longer than forty-seven seconds in the bathroom, and certain jurisdictions agreed that Anvil should pay negative tax in exchange for siting a warehouse in the region, and certain quantities of carbon were pumped into the atmosphere. The wealthy became even wealthier and the poor even poorer, despite all historical indications that this type of situation leads inexorably to violent revolution. And although many people experienced a momentary twinge of anxiety at throwing out more plastic wrapping, very few of Anvil’s hundreds of
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