People are so cheap. Everyone wants quality, no one wants to pay for it. Here's the suburban dream-- to hire great workers who are such meek morons that they don't have the guts to ask for a living wage.

Joan Bauer
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People are so cheap that they will happily pay someone to do a job that they could easily do themselves. For example, they will pay their kids to babysit while they go out for dinner. They would rather spend money on someone who is a complete moron than spend the money directly on the moron themselves. This shows how people are willing to pay someone else to do things for them even when they can easily do it themselves.

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