Word: slaving
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...American Dream--not the American Dream that politicians talk about but something closer to the American Daydream, the fantasy of suddenly becoming enormously, improbably rich. If my experience is any guide, what Americans daydream about is not acquiring hundreds of millions of dollars themselves. For the average wage slave, a believable fantasy in which he becomes, say, a computer mogul is too difficult to construct, and making it at all persuasive requires him to imagine himself to be as dorky as computer moguls are. It's much simpler to daydream about inheriting money...
...Amount owners received per month for each of the 400 slave laborers...
...This is more devastating than the trans-Atlantic slave trade," Rivers added. "At least with slavery, I had a shot at life...
...with," explains Cain. "The next is your wife. Your father dies. Your mom and your sister are the only ones who keep coming. Your momma is the only one who loves you." So Cain says his main job is to give the 5,108 hopeless men on this former slave-breeding farm hope, even though 86% of them will stay here for "life and one dark day." The dark day is the one after they die, when their body gets embalmed and waits to go home and get buried, although the truth is that when they die, no one comes...
...great nation, the nation of many nations," and in the embrace of his rhetoric (bombast that would go gossamer, radiant with the genius of his ardor, his generosity), he became endlessly specific about each trade, and put in motion, Homerically, each deckhand, stevedore, scholar, prostitute, drunkard, slave, "Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff," policeman, suicide, trapper, blacksmith, ploughboy, carpenter, contralto, spinning-girl, machinist, squaw, paving-man, flatboatman, fare-collector... on and on, the vast catalog of individualities making...