[extropy-chat] Seven cents an hour? (was: Riots in France)

[Jeff Davis]

Oh, look.  Is that a soap box?

Somebody wrote if you don't like Wal-Mart, don't work
there.

Then "Damien Broderick" <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:
 
> > I think the key would be, rather: DON'T BUY THERE.

Then --- John K Clark <jonkc at att.net> wrote:

> Yes, that's fine advice, if you think Wal-Mart is
> evil then shop at the
> little mom and pop store that overcharges the hell
> out of you. 

I have yet another suggestion:

If you don't like Wal-Mart, vote for a government
which will restructure campaign finance so that the
wealthy --individuals and corporations -- can't, in
effect, buy the damn govt with campaign contributions.
 Then there might be a chance of having a govt which
enforces a social contract with a core belief in the
right of every Joe and Jane to a minimum standard of
living -- vigorous support of gainful employment,
food, housing, health care, education.  The govt would
support such a social contract not because it's a warm
and fuzzy govt, but because the vast majority of
citizens, being just such Joes and Janes who hold just
such beliefs, would vote any govt out onto the street
which does what our current govts do -- pay lip
service to the Joes and Janes while setting up a
system to enable the wealthy to suck the life out of
anyone on the planet not rich enough to protect
themself.

Some people might call that socialism, and do so with
warmth and an approving smile.  Others, let's call
them the spiritually challenged (unevolved?
disadvantaged?), would call it socialism, with a snarl
and a rictus of contempt, objecting to any
interference with that aspect of their fantasy life
wherein they gleefully and voraciously suck the life
out of the far flung multitudes.  Sadly for the
multitudes, any dismay on the part of these evildoers
will be at best fleeting, because a better, more just
world is the fantasy, and the feasting of capitalists
the reality.

Have a nice day.  Shop at Wal-Mart.  Be glad you don't
have work there,...yet.

Best, Jeff Davis

"The West won the world not by the superiority of its
ideas or values or religion but rather by its
superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners
often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do." 
                - Samuel P. Huntington




	
		
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