My garbage man makes a $100k and recently went on strike because the recyclers ONLY make $80k...

If you fired them all and reopened the job for $50k, you'd have a line a mile long of people willing to perform the same unskilled task and theoretically (of course) my garbage bill would go down.
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In the legend of King Arthur, the Fisher King was a renowned angler whose errant ways caused him to be struck dumb in the presence of the sacred chalice. I am no great fisherman, and a steelhead is not the covenant of Christ, but with each of these fish I am rendered speechless.