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Everything you ever suspected about corporations is true, and 99.9% of what you think you know about lawyers.
This is the story of Dupont, and .1% the exception to the lawyer rule:
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/magazine/the-lawyer-who-became-duponts-worst-nightmare.html?_r=0
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If you're older than 30, 40, 50, the older the better, you'll understand this. I discovered it a while ago, found the comfort to post it now:
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I recognize him, somehow, the bat-shit-crazy-stoner eyes. Don't know from where...
Anyways, he's had a bit of a rough go of it, a day with Alberta Conservatives, (and he lives here, where does he hang out, I wonder?).
Trust me, His day is nothing compared to mine. Every day of my life at that restaurant is like his day in Mount Royal, Times Ten...
I think I should meet him, and buy him dinner...Then he'd have an article, so far, he's had it easy...
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I've been the victim of more of these than I can count. And I'm not even on Facebook. Finally, an article that confirms my every suspicion:
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And English, so rich in theory, but so poor in realization, the poverty of day-to-day language and ideas.
For a few ideas that get you out of the box, try:
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude
and, rather the opposite: http://matadornetwork.com/life/35-untranslatable-words-describe-nuances-love/
Favorites: L'esprit de Escalier, Saudade, Koi No Yokan (that seems like 3 words to me...meh, Japanese...), Wabi-Sabi (2 words again), Aware, Mamihlapinatapai, there are more, find them and send them on...