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  • Low-Wage Workers Routinely Cheated
    Ob commented on the article | over 2 years ago

    I am a simple Old Disgruntled Coot lacking the wisdom so many others possess.


     


    But I do have experience from my decades of living.


     


    The push push push to work work work.......


     


    how much of that is from indoctrination, from brainwashing, from the relentless mantra of achieving "success" emplaced within us as individuals and into society as a whole by a small minority of humans, the elite class within every society, in every organization, a class of elites who skim off the labors of the much larger mass of humans below them, obtaining the wealth that allows the elite class to live luxurious lives while leaving the labor to the masses?


     


    Keep the masses working. Keep them tired so they do not question how "things" are and why "things have to be that way.


     


    What a racket. Dangle a carrot in front of the masses of commoners to keep them working for a life time, hoping for some far-off day when advanced age and some pittance of accumulated savings will allow those life-long laborers to relax for a minute span before death beckons.


     


    Part of the elite's acculturation includes brainwashing as many commoners as possible that their real reward comes after death when the reward of shunning a life of ease or leisure will lead to an eternity of paradise or some other un-provable reward.


     


    What a racket!!!!


     


    The elite class of every country, every society, every organization, and every human-created institution has a hierarchical structure with a small percentage of elites at the top of the pyramid-shaped institutional structure. Those elites live so very well by funneling wealth upwards from the bottom to the top, living off the sweat and toil of those below.


     


    As for the benefits that trickle downwards to the masses? Despite the propaganda to the contrary there is little to no benefit to the vast majority of those existing underneath the elite class level of existence.


     


    Oh, yes, there is a small group beneath the elites who benefit; the bureaucrats within the bureaucracies that insulate the elites from the masses, the minions and lackeys of the elites who enforce the elite's wishes, demands and desires.


     


    Minions and lackeys who are loyal to pay and pension given by their elite class masters who pilfer the pockets of the masses to pay off the bureaucrats who ensure the status quo so beneficial to the elites (and to the bureaucrats) is maintained.


     


    If you ever become a true threat to the elites and/or bureaucrats or their status quo you are in severe danger.


     


    Sadly, the ongoing indoctrination/brainwashing the begins at such an early age continues throughout life, convincing the majority of commoners that as things are is correct, proper and as it should be.


     


    Such is life.


     


    Maybe some day, if the common folks can ever be enlightened, the elite class domination may be torn asunder. With human psychology the way it is, with humans instinctively a social species, a sort of "pack animal," I fear the all-pervading hierarchical elites-at-the-top systems we all exist within are permanently emplaced.


    Do you have doubts about the existence of an ongoing class war within the USA?


    After years of research I could come to only that conclusion.


    Around a year or so ago I found an interview with Warren Buffet, a multi-billionaire who said the following;


    "There's class warfare, all right," Mr. (Warren) Buffett said, "but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning."


     


    When pondering the multitude of problems within the USA consider how the possibility of a class war could be the actual source of that problem.


    It is something to think about.

  • Low-Wage Workers Routinely Cheated
    Ob commented on the article | over 2 years ago

    It is a travesty that agricultural workers do not obtain over-time pay until more than 60 hours per week have been worked.


    Strike!!!!!


    No work for an entire year until Ag workers get over-time after 40 hours work per week.


    A constant food supply placed there by others allows the specialization of tasks within society.


    Those that earn huge sums and amass enormous wealth have those below their lofty positions to thank for the time to perform specialized tasks that pay an excellent wage while those enabling those specialists are spat upon.


    Another example of the ongoing class war.


    I hope the "mere commoners" revolt some day.


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