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<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> </xml><xml> Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE </xml><xml> </xml> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";} </style> There are Matatus and there MATATUS, just like the haves and the have not in our societies today.

I have deliberately capitalized the second matatu to show you how this really works since most things do not just happen without reasons. Critically according to my grammar, capitalism at most means shouting and that's why these 'MATATUS' are connected to loud music, hooligan conductors and huge weird artistic images.

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