You do not become a superpower by creating an ever bigger army of underemployed drivers, idle security guards and ragged peons. |
Although we'd love to see that record in print, too, us superior folk would no longer have anything to lord over the peons. |
For the footsoldiers of such opposition are usually the same poor peons whose livelihood derives from cultivating cannabis or coca. |
The earth-shattering declaration came from a tall, willowy girl surrounded by what could only be classified as a gaggle of peons. |
If you'll excuse me, I am rather busy, and don't care to discuss civic reform with peons. |
Don't worry, it's just a little incentive to get her to socialize with us peons. |