it has been said that to engage in “real” philosophy,
one must engage with an attack or be an “gadfly” to the
society/government, state/culture…the problem that I see
today is too many, far too many accept the standards and values
of our modern, nihilistic society.
the core values of modern day America are the empty values
of money/profits/status…its like eating a cardboard box
and thinking that you are eating delicious healthy food…
society engages in this lie because society/the state/the culture
profits from you eating a cardboard box instead of something healthy
and that is good for you…
one of the often repeated lies of the day, is about jobs…
the GOP often attack the democrats on the grounds that this program
or that program will cost “JOBS” but that leaves out the reality of
this bogus attack… for the type of jobs that the GOP is advocating for
isn’t the high paying jobs with benefits… nope, if one remembers that
the GOP is about profits, then these type of desirable jobs aren’t what they
talking about… for if the business were to actually create these sorts of jobs,
that would reduce the profits of the business… no, the type of jobs the GOP
refers to are the low paying, no benefits jobs of the retail/service sector jobs…
so when the GOP screams about jobs, it is those jobs that they are pushing for,
because those are the jobs that create vast wealth/profits for corporations…
from a business standpoint, paying 12 people minimum wages with no benefits
is far more preferably to paying one person a high salary, say 100,000 a year
with benefits…although it must be noted that being paid a hundred grand a year
is still being a slave to the system, as much as being paid poverty level wages…
this economic system thrives on and demands a large pool of workers who can
work as cheaply as possible and that is what the GOP is trying to achieve…
this is reflected in everything the GOP does… from destroying the educational
system… why should working slaves be educated? there is no point to educating
people whose only function is to work at poverty level, minimum wage jobs?
it is a waste of money to do that…
so remember that when the GOP scream about jobs, it isn’t about
high paying jobs with benefits, no, not at all…
if one remembers what the GOP are fighting for, then we can see
that they only have the interest of the wealthy class that owns the
means of production/big corporations like Disney and GM, as examples…
don’t fall for the lie that your job is an example of being about
“dignity” in work… or how a job is alleged to bring about some pretend
and fanciful benefits like happiness or honor… it doesn’t…
working in corporate America today is about making profits, pure and simple…
and you are simply cannon fodder, a means to making profits… so the less they
can pay you, the more profits they can make…
so accepting the current system as is, means you are accepting your status
as a slave… nothing more, nothing less…
now one of the arguments for capitalism is that profits get put back into the
system… but do you see that? for example, the creation of ART… the suppose
benefit of capitalism is the increase in ART and the funding for ART… but do
you see that? I don’t… now are our cities cleaner or have more value
since the advent of capitalism? no, not at all… the profits of capitalism
is going straight into the pockets of capitalists… and it doesn’t benefit
or help society/the state/the culture…in fact, so much money is going
into the pockets of wealthy people like Bezo’s that very little money is going
into the pockets of the average citizen…if the amount of money is static, remains
the same and people like Bezo’s is getting a larger share of that money, then
you are not getting money… simple math here… the share of, the size of the pie
remains the same, but you get less of the pie because of the wealthy 1% who is
getting a larger and larger share of that static pie…
and your share will continue to be smaller and smaller and smaller until the wealthy
gets 99% of the world’s wealth and 8 billion people are fighting over the left over
crumbs of the wealthy…you think we are in a world of hurt now, just wait until
the vast majority of people who have nothing, begin the next war against
the wealthy…it will make the second world war seem like a picnic…
the greatest threat to our safety and security is income disparity… and the
day of reckoning against the wealthy is coming, sooner then later…
so don’t fall for the big lie about jobs… it just means poverty level and no
benefits jobs… like the millions of jobs already out there…jobs that allow
us no dignity, no respect, no honor and no greatness… it is slave jobs for
slave wages… is that the America that you want? is that the future you want?
Kropotkin