191 - The Many, Many Lives of Frank Chen
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The Summer Sales Event in the Woods
The summer sales event in the woods, everything must go and it will sooner than we think. An elm for $1,500? Topsoil for eight monthly payments of $9.99? What right do we have to commodify this world we share? Is imaginary profit an excuse for real suffering? We say, who cares? Grab a pine cone for 10 cents. Take a bear for $500. Porcupines are by one get one free. Buy three logs and a rock for absolutely nothing. These deals can't be beat. The prices are arbitrary because currency is arbitrary but we value it more than fragile life.
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