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[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

in his VALUE, PRICE & PROFIT, Karl Marx writes:
>If you consider that two-thirds of the national produce are consumed
by one-fifth of the population [the capitalists] ... you will
understand what an immense proportion of the national produce must be
produced in the shape of luxuries, or be exchanged for luxuries, and
what an immense amount of the necessaries themselves must be wasted
upon flunkeys, horses, cats, and so forth, a waste we know from
experience to become always much limited with the rising prices of
necessaries.<

what did Karl have against cats?
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Jim Devine
"The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an
intimate knowledge of its ugly side." -- James Baldwin