Letting the cat out of the bag.
‘What did you tell the worker just now?’
‘I told him to hurry’
‘What right do you have to tell him to hurry?’
‘I pay him’
‘How much do you pay him?’
‘Four dollars a day’
‘Where do you get the money?’
‘I sell products’
‘Who makes them?’
‘He does’
‘How many does he make a day?’
‘Ten dollars worth’
‘Then instead of you paying him, he pays you $6 a day to stand around and tell him to hurry up.’
‘But, well, I own the machines’
‘How did you get the machines?’
‘I sold products’
‘Who made the products?’
‘Shut up. He will hear you’
We’ve only had the illusion of progress. Many of the issues we are fighting now were the same issues MLK was marching for. The same issues faced under The New Deal and the depression.
And we’ve lost most of the gains since the new deal. The New deal seemed mostly effective in placating society to the inherent injustice of class rule by the capitalists. With us placated they were free to reverse progress and create inequality that exceeds the worst excesses of the old capitalists of the 1920’s.