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Selling Sad Food Short

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One interesting item that Scott Galloway sad was that, to make money, get as close to giant piles of cash as you can. In other words, in this increasingly horrific world of unprecedented wealth inequality, the place one should pursue a career is one associated with the top 0.1%, since that’s where all the wealth is. I’d like to turn this idea on its head and suggest that being poor is going to suck worse than ever, and the kinds of dismal places that not-rich people eat are going to suffer as well. I thus present to you the following:


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