07-08-2019, 01:36 AM
The absence of vacations -- or more blatantly, the fear that people have of taking vacations (the Boss may find that he can do without you) -- demonstrates how sick the economic policies of our economic elites are. This is a 4T, and so far the economic elites have been getting everything that they want, including a climate of economic fear for all but themselves. People are more heavily in debt just to prepare to hold any but the most menial of jobs. The cornerstone of economic policy of reactionary administrations has been tax cuts to reeard those already rich. The one institution that can give workers a chance for some dignity in dealings with the elites of ownership and management, the labor union, has practically disappeared. Productivit7y has increased, but all of the increase -- and then some -- has gone to the economic elites.
Supposedly we have the glories of technological wonders, but except for those technological improvements that make life safer (like collapsible steering columns in automobiles) or medical marvels that might save lives, I question whether white people are better off now than we were in the 1950s. (The gains of blacks due to the Civil Rights struggle and the acceptance of homosexuality have not done harm to others).
There has never been a more wonderful time in which to be filthy rich in America except perhaps for being a big planter in the pre-Civil War South, when and where most of the labor was literally slaves. Others live in fear that they can be replaced at a moment's notice. Everyone is proving every day that he should not be fired on the spot if only to set an example for Stakhanovite efforts.
Life is to be suffered and hated, yet we are all obliged to show how content we are . Maybe we are to take vicarious pleasure in knowing the pleasures that the elites get to enjoy. The lack of vacations is but a symptom of the nastiness of out plutocratic corporatocracy.
Supposedly we have the glories of technological wonders, but except for those technological improvements that make life safer (like collapsible steering columns in automobiles) or medical marvels that might save lives, I question whether white people are better off now than we were in the 1950s. (The gains of blacks due to the Civil Rights struggle and the acceptance of homosexuality have not done harm to others).
There has never been a more wonderful time in which to be filthy rich in America except perhaps for being a big planter in the pre-Civil War South, when and where most of the labor was literally slaves. Others live in fear that they can be replaced at a moment's notice. Everyone is proving every day that he should not be fired on the spot if only to set an example for Stakhanovite efforts.
Life is to be suffered and hated, yet we are all obliged to show how content we are . Maybe we are to take vicarious pleasure in knowing the pleasures that the elites get to enjoy. The lack of vacations is but a symptom of the nastiness of out plutocratic corporatocracy.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.