Okay, feeling good are you? 71K in your 401K. That is how much the average saver has set aside in their 401K. If you had to live your retirement life without the US government; if you were to take charge of your own life as you crawl toward death; how long before you longed for key lime pie; how long could you last in last days?
Category: econocaste
economics .. the short version, since the long is wasted on the young
Healthcare, Enslaved
“About the only difference between slavery at Pullman and what it was down South before the war, is that there the owners took care of the slaves when they were sick and here they don’t.”
— worker to a reporter for the Chicago Herald, 31 May 1890
Sing ho, for we know you, Carnegie;
God help us and save us, we know you too well;
You’re crushing our wives and you’re starving our babies;
In our homes you have driven the shadow of hell.
Then bow, bow down to Carnegie,
Ye men who are slaves to his veriest whim;
If he lowers your wages cheer, vassals, then cheer.
Ye
Are nothing but chattels and slaves under him.
– 2nd verse, “A Man Named Carnegie,” anonymous, California, 7 July 1892
Oh No, Can It Be So!
The choice is between reforming a system that has been the
greatest engine of prosperity ever devised or allowing it to be revamped
by political measures and the pressures of an angry public. –– capitalist homily
Strategic thinkers, keepers, even more, guiders of our light, tell us that we should continue to believe; after all, they run the “greatest engine of prosperity ever.” They think that the structure of a third party (money) is the key to production. Maybe. They also consider, and offer by example, the lower cost of toasters in america, vis-a-vis 1970. Your toaster takes less time to buy now than in any other time in history.
Say this to yourself as you hear their homily: “The Mississippi is the biggest producer of silt in america.” or “The Clydesdale makes the greatest pile of crap in the stable. Be certain of those two facts as you slip in the mud or shovel up the shit. It is much cheaper to do these days than it was. Console yourself with this:
they will always need someone to open their door and mop their floor.
Much better than before.
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