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No Longer at Ease

‘You are not paid to think, Mr. Omo, but to do what you are told. Is that clear? Now send the file to me immediately.’ - Mr. Green to Mr. Omo A sentence that has defined the relationship between a leader and a follower, an employer and an employee, and in this particular case, a senior and a junior throughout human history. And so the sentence - ‘You are not paid to think’ - softly hits hard because it traverses time and has seen itself travel from an army General to a Soldier, a king to a minister, and now a senior bureaucrat to a junior bureaucrat.
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