• 🍉 Albert 🍉
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      293 months ago

      That “it’s only a few bad apples” would be a reasonable answer if that system gets rid and punishes those bad apples.

      But if the system protects and ignores those bad apples, then the whole system is rotten

      • @bitjunkie@lemmy.world
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        63 months ago

        Right up there with pulling oneself up by their bootstraps, which was coined to make fun of rich fucks thinking this was somehow possible.

        • @MIDItheKID@lemmy.world
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          23 months ago

          Adding on “The customer is always right”.

          People often forget the next few words which are “in matters of taste”.

          In which case, yes, absolutely. If a paying customer wants a well done steak with ketchup, sure. Or if they want some ugly clothing. Hell yeah, as long as they’re paying.

          It’s not an excuse to act like an entitled asshole.

    • @gedhrel@lemmy.world
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      73 months ago

      “…the barrel.” Apples don’t come in bunches, but at the time the saying was coined they were carted around like that. (Also it only took one, not a few.)

      (I suppose the modern version is “one nazi spoils the bar.”)