Healthcare, Enslaved

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“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

A Negotiating Tactic

Posted on Posted in Valley Hi

If you make a claim of position only for the purpose of altering someone else’s stance, you have no position.

It is common in a business negotiation that someone will make a statement that leads to price. A price for something big, such as their business. If they have a price, you don’t have need to bargain with them. They are not in the market to win, they are in the market to leave. In other words, they are not going to hold this territory. They have it, only to sell it. This means it can be taken from them; for much less than they are pricing it at.

this is catch-up 22, aka, catch-em in the wry