Speaking of Complex End-Products of Many People's Labor

From: "Rev. Magdalen" <magdalen@home.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack

Ever really LOOK at a soup can?

Notice the perfect, glossy texture of the thin, smooth paper. The design of
the label, the fonts, borders, and backgrounds of the minute, perfectly
printed text -- edited and proofread for clarity and adherence to law.

The photograph - a combined effort of a master food stylist and a master
photographer, selected out of dozens, perhaps hundreds, of rejected
photographs.

The meticulous charts stating the results found by teams of scientists
testing the calorie content of the soup, its exact ratios of vitamins,
carbohydrates, sodium, and more.

Often there is a useful copy of the FDA's "Food Pyramid" chart, should the
soup-eater wish to determine the category his meal fits into. That chart
itself was the product of lengthy and exhausting deliberations by an obscure
sub-committee. The standardized size of the can, the makeup of its metals,
and the method of sealing it were determined by other committees.

And of course there are the transporters, who brought the raw materials to
the canmakers, the soup ingredients, printed labels, and finished cans to
the soup factory, and the finished product to your grocery store.

And then there are the soup factory workers who process the ingredients into
soup and seal it into cans. And the workers who make the gas and
automobiles the soup-makers use to get to the soup factory. And the
clothes-makers who make clothes for the soup-makers to wear so they don't
get arrested for public exposure while making the soup.

In this day and age, there is hardly anything we come in contact with that
is NOT the complex end-product of many people's labor.

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Subject: Re: Speaking of Complex End-Products of Many People's Labor
From: iDRMRSR <alex.i.thymia@depression.org>

>>there is hardly anything we come in contact with that
is NOT the complex end-product of many people's labor.<<

Cum stains on the couch?

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