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To: Openurmind

Wouldn’t it be great if society went back to face-to-face business deals where actually knowing someone as a trustworthy person mattered? You could make a deal with a handshake because faceless, soulless corporations were replaced by small local institutions that cared about both employees and customers?

But then profits would suffer and we couldn’t accumulate as much precious “stuff”.


4 posted on 07/28/2025 5:53:10 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The list of things I no longer care about is long. And it's getting longer.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

“But then profits would suffer and we couldn’t accumulate as much precious “stuff”.”

You sound like me about the senseless impractical materialism. And lifestyle, got to have more to go blow at the Indian Casinos.


12 posted on 07/28/2025 5:59:59 AM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: ClearCase_guy
Wouldn’t it be great if society went back to face-to-face business deals where actually knowing someone as a trustworthy person mattered?

Wouldn't you miss that 30 minute hold on customer service line (which repeats that "Your call is important to us")? And you have to press 1 for English only to get someone who barely speaks it with a heavy accent. You'd miss that too,wouldn't you?

23 posted on 07/28/2025 6:14:42 AM PDT by BipolarBob (There's a bike in town that keeps running me over! It's a vicious cycle.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

“ Wouldn’t it be great if society went back to face-to-face business deals where actually knowing someone as a trustworthy person mattered? ”

That would be great, but most people dont live like that anymore


36 posted on 07/28/2025 6:37:36 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (“I don’t really care, Margaret.”)
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