Avoidable Contact Forever

Avoidable Contact Forever

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Jack Baruth
Feb 06, 2018
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My long-departed (from my house, not from this earth) first wife had a lot of suggestions for me during our marriage: Stop skipping work! Don't leave stuff all over the kitchen! Quit buying things you don't need! Tucked in among those absolutely ridiculous ideas, however, was a rather brilliant one. She thought I should write a book called Self-Service Nation about the bizarre lengths to which modern corporations will go in order to offload labor from employees to customers. I told her I'd get around to it as soon as I cleaned up the kitchen, which never happened.

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