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Updated: May 11, 2025

Did she once look behind her, did she turn aside for a second, just to feel the cool silk of petals? As we have seen, an Atta worker is a member of the most implacable labor-union in the world: he believes in a twenty-four hour day, no pay, no play, no rest he is a cog in a machine-driven Good-for-the-greatest-number.

William Beebe - Edge of the Jungle