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The Game Never Named, the Addendum Never Spoken

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Remember that silly game we used to play with fortune cookies from Chinese restaurants? Maybe people still play it. It’s the one where you read your fortune and tack on “… in bed” to the end of the sentence – like, “You will soon meet a mysterious stranger … in bed.” The supplemental phrase usually fits fairly smoothly onto the given fortune, and generates a few chuckles from listeners. Here’s a new game in a similar vein, but this one doesn’t engender much laughter. First, take a look at the statements below. See if you can identify which are true versus which are false. We can’t end poverty… We can’t end homelessness … We can’t feed the hungry … We can’t have livable wages … We can’t have a universal basic income so all people have the basic necessities to live … We can’t end sweatshop labor … We can’t work less … We can’t produce less … We can’t consume less … We can’t have universal, single-payer healthca