Creative destruction?

The vast United Shoe Machinery Corp. plant in Beverly, Mass., was closed in 1989.

The One Day

“There are ways to get rich: Find an old corporation,
self-insured, with capital reserves. Borrow
to buy: Then dehire managers; yellow-slip maintenance;
pay public relations to explain how winter is summer….’’

From “The One Day,’’ by New Hampshire-based poet Donald Hall (1928-1918).

Here’s the whole poem.

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