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28 July 2014

TEN YEARS AGO

WE HAD

STEVE JOBS,

BOB HOPE

AND

 JOHNNY CASH.

NOW WE HAVE

NO JOBS,

NO HOPE

AND

NO CASH

Antigone1984:

Text of a slightly out-of-date poster seen last week in the window of Paul Baars Design Studio Store at Frederiksplein 16-18 in Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

For the benefit of those of you who don’t get out much,

Bob Hope was a comedian, singer and dancer, who was born in London, England, in 1903 and died at Los Angeles, California, in 2003;

Johnny Cash was a singer and songwriter, who was born at Kingsland, Arkansas, in 1932 and died at Nashville, Tennessee, in 2003; and

Steve Jobs, an entrepreneur who was born in 1955 at San Francisco, California, and died nearby at Palo Alto in 2011, co-founded the personal computer and smartphone company, Apple.

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 You might perhaps care to view some of our earlier posts.  For instance:

1. Why? or How? That is the question (3 Jan 2012)
2. Partitocracy v. Democracy (20 July 2012)
3. The shoddiest possible goods at the highest possible prices (2 Feb 2012)
4. Capitalism in practice (4 July 2012) 
5. Ladder (21 June 2012)
6. A tale of two cities (1) (6 June 2012)
7. A tale of two cities (2) (7 June 2012)
8. Where’s the beef? Ontology and tinned meat (31 Jan 2012)

Every so often we shall change this sample of previously published posts.

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