375K? Um, I don't get it. How is a logging operation a front for a basement grow?

AaaaaaaaNyway, part of the problem is the computerization of retail transactions. Back in the day ("the Day" of course being back when the walk to school in the snow was uphill both ways) my first real job involved a mechanical cash register and counting out the customer's change. Remember that? The cashier puts your dollar on the shelf above the drawer, says from a dollar that's 29 cents and hands you a penny, saying "that's thirty", two dimes "forty, fifty" and a half dollar piece "and fifty is a dollar. (If you had tendered a five instead of a one, they would then count out four singles, which rest comfortably and conveniently atop the silver.) May I carry the bushel to your wagon for you?" Thus making sure that the price of the apples plus the change she counted out adds up to the dollar you tendered.

Now they read the change amount off the screen put a few bills in your hand, pile a handful of coins on top of that, smile proudly that they were able to actually count out the same amount in bills and coins that they read off the screen, and start a secret timer to see how fast they can make the stupid pile of coins slide off the bills in your hand.

If you analyze the different skill sets required for these transactions, you will see that its approximately the difference between understanding basic algebra (then) and being able to count (now). Not to mention understanding the ergonomics of coins resting in the palm of the hand and bills retained by the opposable thumb.


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