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Bread is fungible, construction workers (or any kind of employee or contractor) much less so.

• OJFord 9y ago
  > Bread is fungible In what society?
  • andrewjl 9y ago
    If you see two loaves in a store that are basically the same kind, you normally won't think too hard about which one you pick. As mechanical and indifferent as some hiring processes are, they don't approach that level of indifference.
    • OJFord 9y ago
      Okay, that's maybe true. (Although I'd say if they're sufficiently similar I'd probably just base it on price rather than being indifferent.) But you've added the qualifiers 'in a store' and 'basically the same kind', and it's still not really describing fungibility, is it?
• quickthrower2 9y ago
  Pun intended?