An electronic traffic message board — normally the forum for messages like “right lane closed ahead” — had been reprogrammed with an ominous message.
“One less CEO,” the sign, at the corner of southbound Aurora and Dexter Way, said, “many more to go.”
Seattle is a mix of rich folks, tech folks, counterculture folks, and holier-than-thou folks. Sometimes, that’s just one dude.
You’re referring to my dentist! Like how can you be a snob and also have clients that let you drill their teeth out? It takes whatever I used to be. But now I’m going to get me a new dentist lol.
It also has a big contingent of seasonally depressed service-sector folks.
I remember when it was a friendly city, but that was almost 50 years ago. All that working-class solidarity and memory of the IWW is gone now.