BagOfNothing.com

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A major problem in the US now is the inability for many people to pay off their credit card debt. I looked online for some way to better understand how this all works, and wrote this simple little system to have an ‘aha’ moment. I hope it is useful to you.

“Individually wrapped slices of cheese topped the list in importance, as consumers were no longer vexed with the challenging dilemma of slicing ultra-thin portions of cheese from the block, and preventing surface hardening oxidation from spoiling the outer skin in the refrigerator.”

Even the designer of the cubicle thinks they were maybe a bad idea.

NEW YORK (FORTUNE Magazine) – Robert Oppenheimer agonized over building the A-bomb. Alfred Nobel got queasy about creating dynamite. Robert Propst invented nothing so destructive. Yet before he died in 2000, he lamented his unwitting contribution to what he called “monolithic insanity.”

Propst is the father of the cubicle. More than 30 years after he unleashed it on the world, we are still trying to get out of the box. The cubicle has been called many things in its long and terrible reign. But what it has lacked in beauty and amenity, it has made up for in crabgrass-like persistence.

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