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Her death must be sad for the handful of people she was nice to and the rich people who got richer under her stewardship. It isn’t sad for anyone else.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker argues that mourning this woman should be limited to a small circle: the few individuals she treated kindly and the wealthy who profited while she managed things. Everyone else, in their view, has no reason for sorrow. It is a pointed, scornful judgment about whose interests her career served.
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