(November 27, 2011 at 5:09 pm)Rhythm Wrote: There is something fundamentally wrong about how we determine what an hour of a human life is worth (or an hour of any particular job). For example, sanitation workers get paid jack shit. Apparently we'd rather be up to our eyeballs in our own feces rather than pay them more and some admin somewhere (or even the admin that works in the same field) a little less. How much would I have to pay you to handle my refuse, and biological waste? How much to handle the refuse and waste of an entire city 12 to 14 hours a day 7 days a week? Don't forget the hypos people love to leave in their trashcans or throw in the gutter.
(hint: minimum wage or less in most cases, and just forget about insurance, benefits, or overtime. Unless of course you belong to a union, if that's even an option in whatever state or jurisdiction you live in.)
The union is under attack here in America, and has been slowly dying off. I am union because I feel that people are more important than profits. that is what this UK strike is all about, that is what occupy wallstreet is all about.
If I am working with someone who considers profit more important than people (which is whaat I tried to explain to Adrian), then I consider that person a part of the problem. A potential overseer, who whips people into conforming to the richest peoples demands, all for a slight bit more slave wage than those they whip. These people are WORSE than the rich, in that they willingly take on the mantle of the rich mans shit slinger. Willing to be the enforcer of persecution and slavery in the name of riches he will never taste, but yearns for all their lives. They, and the rich, are the ones who keep deciding that human hourly wage is worth less and less, while the product created by such labor are worth more and more.
Ultimately it is a hypocrisy. My labor is worthless to them, yet the product of my labor is priceless to them that I should take out a life long loan just to buy it. In reality, I made that product, and so did many others. It belongs to us, not to the number bumpers, the paper pushers, and whip swingers. They are the ones who use the false concept of "economy" to force people to work harder for less, especially when percentages of interest are used.
An "investor" has no problem taking the hard work of other people, and renting it over to another group of wage slaves in order to make the greatest percentage possible.
Notice that wages are always subject to discussion, but profit returns have no such subjection.
The employers are the ones who need the objects. Will the electrical company exist if people did not need the product? In this situation who are the leaches? the customers? The ones who actually do the physical work to create the electricity? Or the fucking paper pushers, number creators, investors and such?
There is a leach in the system. they are the ones who shuffle papers back and forth, make back door deals, and use greed that maybe, just maybe, you will be in their leacherous position to insure their power is secure.
As long as people want to be the leach. As long as people want to be "rich", then the system will ALWAYS be corrupt.
