'#350 Poor Little Rich Town- Kurt Vonnegut
“Newell Cady had the polish, the wealth, the influence, and
the middle-aged good looks of an idealized Julius Caesar. Most of all though,
Cady had know-how of a priceless variety that caused large manufacturing concerns
to big for his services like dying sultans offering half their kingdoms for a
cure.”
So when he was hired for a new job in Ilium, NY, and that
town had a sudden economic crash, the town leaders thought that such a man
could help. But at what cost?
“What is a village profited if it shall gain a real estate
boom and lose its own soul?”
Sometimes there is such a thing as being too-efficient.
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