I guess U.S. capitalism couldn't tolerate blue-collar workers making "middle class" incomes.
Michael Perelman wrote: > I grew up in the heart of the rust belt. During the 70s, my brother was > living in Youngstown, Ohio. He called me to tell me that a tornado had > swept through the town. He was crestfallen that a tornado missed his > house by only a couple hundred yards. > > At the time, arson was a major industry because houses were insured for > so much more than their value market. A tornado would have made him > much better off without the risk of prosecution. > > I also remember when he came home from school one day asking my parents > when they were going to be divorced. There was no marital disharmony in > the house, but he saw that the parents of many of his classmates were > getting divorced, because the jobs in the mills were disappearing. > -- > Michael Perelman > Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 > > Tel. 530-898-5321 > E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu > michaelperelman.wordpress.com > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Jim Devine "All science would be superfluous if the form of appearance of things directly coincided with their essence." -- KM _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
