In the days that followed, a new quality of dread settled over the place like soot, as people weighed their options. Heat or food? Gas or electricity? Medicine or mortgage payments? In the supermarket, I heard one man tell another, “When I was a kid, you woke up, went into the bathroom, and broke up the ice in the toilet. Now my kids will have to do the same. America is moving backward.” —Soshana Zuboff, “Welcome to the Frozen Economy,” BusinessWeek, July 14, 2008.
NVDL: Our options are growing fewer by the second. I don't exaggerate.
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