"I see Maurice's case as a league trying to make certain players, young players, who are often poor, wait on earning a living, while the N.F.L. and colleges, either directly or indirectly, make millions off of them," Milstein said.
These employees are the data-poor, waiting around at the end of the day on the data breadline.
"It may well be that our staff and our emergency departments and our hospitals are actually carrying out their work more thoroughly, which may deliver poorer waiting times but deliver better outcomes.
"Her poor son, waiting to finally be king," he said.
If that is the outcome, the outlook for poor people waiting for social housing looks bleak.
Off-screen, some poor schmucks waiting to be seated whine futilely to the maître d'.
Surely there's no such thing as "high" and "low" culture, just good and poor ideas waiting to be discovered.
Outside the soup kitchen of the Aghia Triada church in Piraeus, near Athens, more of Greece's new poor are waiting for a handout.
As you wheel your Smyg and your Snits out into the car park along with all the other stuff you didn't intend to buy, spare a thought for those poor souls waiting in a room just round the corner.
