The role of Health Care in making a miserable sick workplace can't be denied. The fact is people don't have the freedom to follow their interests or talents. Tied to the bi-weekly payout and the deductions from such wage, they grow more and more miserable, emotionally stressed, and ill enough to be using the plan. When they use just too much, down the road they go.
Back to the term "Deductions", the employer considers it a contribution, with the resulting implied statement the worker owes them for such a grand and benevolent act. First they make them sick and then the sick are grateful, a beautiful system of capitalized pain.
The working class has become arrogant towards the non-working class. Seperate, the kept ones, the house slaves of the capitalist system. Looking down from the Big House on the hill with disdain towards the field hands. The Boss and them have a "thing going on", an understanding. The others on the plantation, with the dysentery and non-rigid work ethic, deserve their fate if they can't find a sponsor or stand too tall when Boss comes around. You know who is the modern Booker T Washington is? Andy Stern of the SEIU.
A personal Dred Scott Decision
Never trust the house slave, always trust the field hand. Andersonville…
With every timecard, fascism exists.
The free slaves torment the chained ones.
Personal freedom is verbally diminished.
Ideas improving workplace conditions are
Considered crazy, worthless.
Union stewards, backbit, hurting.
Die of broken hearts.
The Boss doesn’t have to manage.
Or think ahead, or care about his crew.
He must keep his hands on the wheel and steer
While the deckhands work hard and throw
Each other overboard.
An occasional sailor goes AWOL on shore leave,
The ship leaves every morning nonetheless.
Of course construction unions are
Recruiting from released prisoners.
It’s not a feel good program.
They respect these men for their minds and
Broken spirits.
The industry understands the manpower must
Police itself and the bullies are their willing security.
Fear has always been the motivator in the trades.
Where do you find yourself in the 9 to 5 world?
Trying to get back on the anthill, looking for crumbs?
Free to look at the sky and feel the sunshine on your face?
OR checking in too early in the morning to the punishing state of wage slavery?
Are you telling yourself how lucky you are?
And how you are better than others, needed and wanted by the employer?
Is it a kind prison? Does it put velvet on the cuffs? Is your mind at peace?
Corporate America is in the business of producing nooses
For half the working class.
The other half is now hooded, roped and waiting for the
Floor panel to fall open.
It’s the kind and compassionate worker being eliminated.
The person with the better human nature – the lover of
People over profits.
It’s the sympathetic suffering in these days and the resulting
Anger is misdirected unto themselves.
When the Outsiders critical mass and
Have Consensus on their common enemy.
When they have faith in themselves to implement
A caring economic system.
When hoods and nooses are removed and burnt and
The Spark we all have inside glows bright
The prison will be open and the slaves will be free.
Until that day I find it hard to interact with working people,
With jobs, that is. Their arrogance is suffocating to be around.
I am in pain thinking I had that attitude for thirty years.
My loyalty was to the working class and it should
Have been to the non-working class.
It's been a revolution of the mind,
A good, powerful, meaningful life change
One long repressed.
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