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It's Labor Day!
If anyone wants to say the US Labor Day is BS, I'll be happy to punch them in the face. The struggle between capital and labor started centuries before the industrial revolution and will likely continue for the remainder of human civilization.
Labor creates all wealth. Even the profits made by market speculators are ultimately derived from some sweaty person digging a ditch, or the children in factories that made your shoes. Some will tell you that your right to not be poisoned or ripped apart by machinery at work is the reason all of the jobs have gone overseas. In the cold sociopathic logic of modern business they are actually 100% correct. By the same logic our country could generate new wealth at rates never before seen in human history by repealing the ban on slavery. This is because labor is the only way that wealth is created.
Technology has pushed per-capita GDP through the roof, yet personal real income for workers has remained stagnant or even declined since the 1950's. This growing disparity can be attributed to complacency at the bottom of the capitalist food chain. Working class folks are increasingly pacified by a procession of pornographic media, propogandist news, and an ever more militarized police force. Advances in mass psychology have enabled the ruling elite to "divide and conquer" the working class populace not only along the lines of race, sex, or marginal bottom level income layers, but increasingly at the individual scale. We have schools nationwide teaching disinformational economic theory, and prepping the youth for consumption as compliant drones by industry. They largely ignore material that could prepare anyone for entreprenurial activity. None of this is by accident.
I hope you're not working tomorrow, but even if you are, do take a moment to remember that the men in our armed services are not the only ones who have died for your freedom (what's left of it). It could be as early as tomorrow, those armed services are turned against you.
"I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half." Jay Gould
An Eclectic List of Events in U.S. Labor History
If anyone wants to say the US Labor Day is BS, I'll be happy to punch them in the face. The struggle between capital and labor started centuries before the industrial revolution and will likely continue for the remainder of human civilization.
Labor creates all wealth. Even the profits made by market speculators are ultimately derived from some sweaty person digging a ditch, or the children in factories that made your shoes. Some will tell you that your right to not be poisoned or ripped apart by machinery at work is the reason all of the jobs have gone overseas. In the cold sociopathic logic of modern business they are actually 100% correct. By the same logic our country could generate new wealth at rates never before seen in human history by repealing the ban on slavery. This is because labor is the only way that wealth is created.
Technology has pushed per-capita GDP through the roof, yet personal real income for workers has remained stagnant or even declined since the 1950's. This growing disparity can be attributed to complacency at the bottom of the capitalist food chain. Working class folks are increasingly pacified by a procession of pornographic media, propogandist news, and an ever more militarized police force. Advances in mass psychology have enabled the ruling elite to "divide and conquer" the working class populace not only along the lines of race, sex, or marginal bottom level income layers, but increasingly at the individual scale. We have schools nationwide teaching disinformational economic theory, and prepping the youth for consumption as compliant drones by industry. They largely ignore material that could prepare anyone for entreprenurial activity. None of this is by accident.
I hope you're not working tomorrow, but even if you are, do take a moment to remember that the men in our armed services are not the only ones who have died for your freedom (what's left of it). It could be as early as tomorrow, those armed services are turned against you.
"I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half." Jay Gould
An Eclectic List of Events in U.S. Labor History
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