Michael Lewis Quotes

By 2014, Reed Had Calculated, A City Of A Million People, The Tenth Largest City In The United States, Would Be Serviced By 1,600 Public Workers. "There Is No Way To Run A City With That Level Of Staffing," He Said. "You Start To Ask: What Is A City? Why Do We Bother To Live Together? But That's Just The Start." The Problem Was Going To Grow Worse Until, As He Put It, "you Get To One." A Single Employee To Service The Entire City, Presumably With A Focus On Paying Pensions. "I Don't Know How Far Out You Have To Go Until You Get To One," Said Reed, "but It Isn't All That Far." At That Point, If Not Before, The City Would Be Nothing More Than A Vehicle To Pay The Retirement Costs Of Its Former Workers. The Only Clear Solution Was If Former City Workers Up And Died, Soon. But Former City Workers Were, Blessedly, Living Longer Than Ever. This

Michael Lewis Quotes: By 2014, Reed Had Calculated, A City Of A Million People, The Tenth Largest City In The United States, Would

Michael Lewis Quotes: By 2014, Reed Had Calculated, A City Of A Million People, The Tenth Largest City In The United States, Would

Michael Lewis Quotes: By 2014, Reed Had Calculated, A City Of A Million People, The Tenth Largest City In The United States, Would

Michael Lewis Quotes: By 2014, Reed Had Calculated, A City Of A Million People, The Tenth Largest City In The United States, Would

Michael Lewis Quotes: By 2014, Reed Had Calculated, A City Of A Million People, The Tenth Largest City In The United States, Would

Michael Lewis Quotes: By 2014, Reed Had Calculated, A City Of A Million People, The Tenth Largest City In The United States, Would

Michael Lewis Quotes: By 2014, Reed Had Calculated, A City Of A Million People, The Tenth Largest City In The United States, Would

Michael Lewis Quotes: By 2014, Reed Had Calculated, A City Of A Million People, The Tenth Largest City In The United States, Would

Michael Lewis Quotes: By 2014, Reed Had Calculated, A City Of A Million People, The Tenth Largest City In The United States, Would

Michael Lewis Quotes: By 2014, Reed Had Calculated, A City Of A Million People, The Tenth Largest City In The United States, Would

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