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Tear down this wall

A phrase circa late 1980s demanding the removal of a reinforced cement concrete barrier.  This was a demand made by an American to a Russian in Germany where both were guests.  The American was a former Hollywood actor called Ronald and the latter a Siberian communist.  Not sure what was going on there.

But some capitalists stateside seem to have taken that phrase to new heights.  I am referring to the conversion of the old cubicle based office arrangements to the one favored by a new breed of employee we shall call 'Yuppie'.

Yuppies are folks that went to (in a way of using the broadest brush available) arts colleges that were advertised as liberal (another mysterious definition if you ask me) and showed up to the interview process demanding they get hired.  Capitalists being opportunistic identified early that the aforementioned young men and women were in search of free food and non stop mingling, therefore while making arrangements to feed them they also decided to get rid of office partitions that separated one of our species from another (including all the bacteria and viruses they spat out) to now freely interface with another of their own species.

Thence they tore down the walls.  Less costly that way.  Now the so called modern American office is a mercado (large carpeted area with benches and ping pong tables) that offers nothing of value but incessant babbling twenty year olds that stretch out with a mobile computing device while simultaneously earning gold coins as they score in a web based death match or a car race and writing software code for turning on a service that monitors the use of your electric bulb and make unwanted suggestions about how you could optimize it.  How the heck did we manage our bulbs before?

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