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This story took place in the 70s.

The value arbitrage corporations get from their workers today makes shareholders embezzling from workers just the way of the world now.

He wasn't just charming -- he was nihilistically prescient. He knew where the world was going, and that other businessman at the end, he wouldn't survive in today's environment.



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