Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work … - Jack Kerouac

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Leadership is about empowering others to achieve things they did not think possible.

Jack Kerouac

Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, all that cramp they didn't really want anyway such as refrigerators, TV sets, cars, at least new fancy cars, certain hair oils and deodorants and general junk you finally always see a week later in the garbage anyway, all of them imprisoned in a system of work, produce, consume, work, produce, consume.

Fancy, Fancy Cars, Hair, Oil, Refusing, Sets

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