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A hypothetical scenario: A once-thriving business in your community starts to fade. I don't know what happened; maybe the layabout son takes over for the hardworking father, maybe the neighborhood goes to hell and the layabout son doesn't do anything to make the customers feel safe walking through the parking lot. Maybe the economy crashes. Whatever the case, the product suffers, the physical structure falls into disrepair and everybody in town laments the business's demise even as they shop somewhere else.
Probably in a building as big as an airplane hangar, where they sell everything from doughnuts to shovels, but that's another story.
Inevitably, the layabout son runs low on money. He hires cheap, lousy workers who know and care...
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