Elephant Meat, Bird Bones, and the Dignity of Early Jobs

Elephant Meat, Bird Bones, and the Dignity of Early Jobs
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Jeffrey A. Tucker
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The hot grease splattered far, wide, and high as the ball-shaped beef roast hit the ground, falling from a hot oven from eight feet high. It seemed nearly impossible to balance a large fork in one hand and an aluminum platter in the other while on a ladder to reach the highest commercial oven in the stack. But I had seen it done. So I attempted it without success.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]