I hate no meme so much as "selling shovels", which is a synecdoche for "selling shovels in a gold rush" and universally used as a slur.
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It is literally "I choose to sell my labor to a firm. This is right and virtuous. You choose to sell something else to a firm. Unclean!"
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"Selling shovels" also encodes a distaste for "shovel sellers got rich while the 49ers largely did not", which does not analogize to present
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@patio11 employees that say this should remember that in this metaphor they're the miners, not the capitalists that ran the mines.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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