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Yeah but dey da boss. They get to be as hypocritical and arbitrary as they like. If you go sharecroppin' on somebody else's plot of land, don't expect to be af

Yeah but dey da boss. They get to be as hypocritical and arbitrary as they like. If you go sharecroppin' on somebody else's plot of land, don't expect to be afforded any rights or respect by the owner. Eventually people will figure this out. Eventually.

chime 16y ago
> Yeah but dey da boss > go sharecroppin' If this is a reference to something, I don't get it. If not, why are you writing like this? Edit: Thanks alnayyir. I knew there was something I was missing.
- alnayyir 16y ago
  http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&client=ubuntu&channel=cs&ie=UTF-8&q=software+sharecropping http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&client=ubun...
- JonnieCache 16y ago
  It's a reference to civil war era america. Elaborate user-generated-content metaphor?
  - philwelch 16y ago
    The post Civil War South, actually. Sharecropping wasn't really a thing in the North, and before and during the Civil War, there wasn't very much sharecropping because slavery was more cost-effective.
    - alnayyir 16y ago
      ding ding ding. This man gets ALL the dollars.
- graham-miln 16y ago
  chime, sharecropping in terms of software development is a topic that Tim Bray has an interesting take on: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/12/WebsThePlace http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/12/WebsThePla...
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