And then I compile all of these numbers on these clipboards that you see here.

These clipboards are filled with numbers.

So they put a couple of people in the streets with pencils and clipboards, who walked around collecting information which led to a 20-cent tax on all cigarette sales.

And then they got sued by big tobacco, who claimed that collecting information with pencils and clipboards is neither precise nor provable.

There are constant references to assembly line production, where workers are treated as cogs in a machine, overseen by managers wielding clipboards, controlling how much hair the workers leave exposed, and firing workers (Stanley) who meet all criteria (as his supervisor says, are always on time, are hard workers, do good work) but who may in some unspecified future make a mistake.

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