Found a nice bumber sticker slogan on the following url:
"Osama still has his job, do you still have yours?"
This is paradoxically funny and sad given that the jobs created underneath W, Rove and Co. is unacceptably low. Not only that, but W, Rove and Co have setting new records: 1, 2. The cost of oil is making them richer, and us poorer at the gas pump. How nice - so much for your 400 dollar tax credit/rebat courtesy of W, Rove and Co. - ours went right into the gas tank several times over - and right into the big oil pockets.
4 comments:
Paid work is not an end in itself
The problem is less that there are too few jobs than that there are too many people who want jobs. Were one-third of current workers removed from the rolls of the working, the demand for workers would rise and wages, too. While total wages paid might be slightly less than now, the amount of leisure reintroduced into society would be enormous.
I agree with Anon. when he/she says "paid work is not an end in itself." Unfortunately, it is a sad necessity of our capitalist system.
As for the republican "distaste" for wealth redistribution, as you note, this is only when the money leaves the hands of the rich or the corporation and falls into the budgets of services for the poorer classes. They are only too happy to facilitate wealth distribution in the reverse.
"They are only too happy to facilitate wealth distribution in the reverse." - That's for sure!
"The problem is less that there are too few jobs than that there are too many people who want jobs." - Huh? isn't that the same as the "glass is half full or half empty" thing? The definition od too few jobs is the same as too many people wanting jobs. Or needing them, assuming your not making that distinction.
I was one of those "removed from teh rolls of the working," and I can tell you, it is most definitely not leisurely.
D'accord, SheaNC!
But no ''Huh?''
If you or anyone else wants a job then not having one is a hardship. The statement, "The problem is less that there are too few jobs than that there are too many people who want jobs," is not paradoxical, for you or anyone else in your classification (too many people who want jobs).
''Work is hard, no work is harder.'' - Cypriot aphorism
Linus Torvalds once said (paraphrasing) that the reason he was free to develop Linux is because he lived in a society (Finland) where his needs would be taken care of whether or not he had a job.
Is what he did ''work''?
Does freedom from ''work,'' voluntarily or involuntarily, contain within it a responsibility to society to pay for that freedom?
How many people have jobs so they can buy more things? Keeping up with the Jones's? everyone to stand on tiptoes at a parade.
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