From: Hubert Mania (humania@t-online.de)
Date: Tue Sep 10 2002 - 01:04:44 MDT
Sally proposed:
>
> >>Why don't the poor get together and buy some "cheap" real estate in East
> >>Palo Alto, and then wire up that area for surveillance, thus prompting real
> >>estate cost rises....
And I objected:
> >Sorry Sally, but that reminds me of a French princess who asked:
> >"Why don`t they eat cake?"
> >when someone told her, poor people in Paris couldn`t even afford their daily bread.
While Charles completed:
> Historical context: Cake was the dough that stuck to the ovens after the bread was
pulled off. I don't > know just how carbonized it was, but nobody would buy it or eat
it.
Now, that' s a surprise. If you're right, then this pretty common example of the rich
being arrogant and ignorant when it comes to poor people, gets a spin into an even more
cynical direction. I always thought the princess was talking about real cake, no por man
could even dare to afford. Nobody I heard or read, ever used this story with your kind
of twist. I didn`t know that. Gives another spin to the story. Thanks for the
information.
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