Greed and its punishment is everywhere, whether it's Violet Beauregarde swelling up into a blueberry in Charlie and The Chocolate Factory or the child in Matilda who is forced to eat a whole chocolate cake.

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And owners of capital are grabbing a bigger slice of the cake relative to workers as a whole.

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"I went to Whole Foods because I needed a cake and groceries, and it was my daughter's 23rd birthday, " she says.

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These small but dense cakes filled with lotus paste and a whole egg-yolk centre symbolise the full moon, and it is the accepted practice to share a cake with friends, family and colleagues.

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