“To me, being FORCED to purchase something”
An old Soviet saying
They pretend to pay me and I pretend to work
“An old Soviet saying: They pretend to pay me and I pretend to work”
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I’ve always loved that, how true it was (is). The best humor is based on real truth.
To your point, to which we can now add:
“And I pretend to buy something, and they pretend to count it as economic activity”.