From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rafal@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Sat Aug 09 2003 - 02:21:14 MDT
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Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 3:15 AM
Subject: Re: FWD [forteana] Health Care: USA, Iraq & Canada
> Rafal:
> <<### The drones who used to work, now can't find the same or better
> position,
> but still feel entitled to their previous wages, now going to the poor but
> hardworking people of Calcutta, should indeed face the difficult
decision -
> adapt, demand less, offer more, or make room for those who will.
> Rafal>>
>
> Well, we shall see how "bad" things will get, unemployment-wise. Laws
> preventing jobs from being telecommunicated-away; is surely an option.
Unfortunately,
> there is nobody telecommunicating CEO and Board of Directors jobs, away;
thus
> saving tens of billions of dollars. This never seems to occur. Could it be
> that all the fortune 500 corporate honchos are merely looking out for each
> other? Indeed! And, so begins the middle-phase of the newest class war.
Strap
> yourselves in; its going to be a very, very, bumpy ride.
>
### This is the old communist attitude - envious hatred for businessmen,
usually coupled to the populist dream - high wages, little work, low prices
and well-stocked stores. But, the world is a bit more complex than images of
evil bosses scheming to take the worker's pay would suggest.
The protectionist demands cheap imported goods, the right to export abroad,
initiation of force to suppress competition, and total indifference to the
suffering of others. All moral and intellectual failings are attributed to
the "others" - the colored foreigners, and the rich CEO.
Yes, protectionists, racists, xenophobes - they are all alike. Once they
gain power, it will be a bumpy ride, all the way to Hell.
Rafal
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