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’
How far we’ve fallen that this isn’t in the collective cosciousness anymore.
God damn, we’ve made so much progress in so many ways since the 1930s, but this has almost gotten worse.
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.
