(11-28-2017, 11:29 AM)Warren Dew Wrote:(11-28-2017, 10:44 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Much serviceable stuff is cheap. What is precious isn't a dinner plate; it is the cultural creations.
Sounds like someone who doesn't have to pay for his own room and board speaking.
Non sequitur.
In much of America, the most rapidly-rising cost is rent. For the privilege of living where the opportunities are, one pays a fiendish price. For the privilege of functioning as a highly productive or creative person one pays a fiendish price. Does rent become 80% of an income if one is an advertising copywriter or a software engineer? What does that do to mere clerks?
Of course, in Trump's fascist economy nothing matters except that the Right People get what they want and that the little people pay the taxes. He's a typical rent-grabber, the sort of capitalist who perfectly fits the Marxist stereotype of a capitalist. It's a bad idea to fit a derogatory stereotype no matter what one's ethnic, religious, occupational. or class group. .
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.
