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Re: Socioeconomic Inequality Amongst LA Assyrians
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Wednesday, September 25 2013, 20:10:10 (UTC)
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...capitalism is great if you want to exploit....and exploitation can't be fair, by definition. What the capitalist has to do to keep the thing going is convicne workers that their best hope lies in even more exploitation....like WalMart did in D.C. recently when the city council decided WalMart would have to pay a living wage in order to be allowed to complete the stores they were building...naturally WalMart said they couldn't afford it and said they would just go away and then what would the slaves do for any kind of jobs?

That's the way they have people over a barrel.....if you tax us, we won't hire you...if you ask for a fair wage, we won't hire you...if you make any demands on us, we wonlt hire you AND we may have to fire you and close up...so take it and shut up...don't you love your "freedom"?

What we don't understand is that they need US almost as much as they've convinced us we need them...like they would really stop making money and expanding and getting their bonuses if we had a dollar more an hour.

But, it isn't the money...of course they can afford it...hell, where do you think that extra dollar is going to go? It's just going to travel from them through our bank accounts and back to "them"...who are they kidding?

What they really want is a broken populace, a docile populace that will do nothing BUT shop, as a way of expressing their FREEDOM.

They have all the money they can ever use, the point now is social control...they learned a powerful lesson from the 60s and 70s when wages were high, costs low, and middle class strong...the problem as the kids of that class had the leisure time to look around them, and think of how society could be changed for the better...because it ALWAYS can be.

I remember back when you could work part-time and still rent your own apartment...and you could hitchhike to places where protests were going on and you could stay with friends etc...it didn't cost so much just to get through the day,....and that led to spare time to think and do, and agitate and demonstrate...and THEY didn't like that...fast forward to today when no one can afford to scratch his arse...and every 20 year-old is worried about retirement and not winding up on the streets.....of COURSE they can afford to pay a living wage....at least in terms of money they can afford it...what they really can't afford is leisure time for the populace to think, to care about the environment or social injustice...THAT's what they "can't afford".



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