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Corporate Subterfuge Begins at Home

from Notes on the Body

Citibank's "Live Richly" campaign includes an especially annoying aphorism, which I often see on the side of the bus stop that I walk past: "Cutting your own hair is not a good way to save money," it says. To which I said, like hell it's not:

This:

the mess in the sink

Led to this:

the mess on my head

Which leads me to wonder: can you still get money for hair?

March 17, 2003

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further reading:

"Live Richly" Rant from Salon
Another sucker: "It is a trick! But we are vulnerable, more so now, perhaps, than ever. Are we also so morally and intellectually depleted that we will eagerly accept a pseudo-moral philosophy from a bank?"
Thank you, Steve!
Steve Burns--late of Blue's Clues--makes me feel better.