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He never said that. From your link: " Laura of 11D says this quote is making the rounds of Wall Street. ... And indeed, searching all three volumes for "hous
by alnayyir 16y ago
He never said that.
From your link:
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Laura of 11D says this quote is making the rounds of Wall Street.
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And indeed, searching all three volumes for "houses" and "homes", which are a pretty straight one-to-one translation, yields nothing that sounds remotely like this.
Every time I see one of these things, I wonder. Who the hell makes them up? And why? What do you get from passing your mediocre musings off as the work of a long-dead revolutionary?"
- hughw 16y agoGood for you alnayyir. I also doubt in 1867 "buy[ing] more...technology" was a concern. Sign of a good Snopes target.
- brazzy 16y agoYeah, because technology did not exist before the internet... The word may not have been used that way back then, but the 1867 equivalent of an expensive smartphone bought as a status symbol rather than for its actual utility would have been a pocket watch.
- alnayyir 16y agoThey didn't speak like that back then, and mass consumption of technology wasn't a concept yet. Pocket watches weren't a mass consumption item at the time, nor would they have been considered technology.
- brazzy 16y agoThe motivation behind that particular faux quote is probably to support the "Obama = Evil Communist" notion.
- kahirsch 16y agoThis quote apparently came from this satire: http://www.newsmutiny.com/pages/Communist_Reeducation.html http://www.newsmutiny.com/pages/Communist_Reeducation.html