On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:43:20 EST waistli...@aol.com writes:
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I asked myself, why would a human being work a 100 hour week
voluntarily?
That sort of thing is not or was not uncommon
in the high tech world.
Seven days 12 hours a day is only 72 hours. Add another 28 hours
and one
has no family life and ultimately no wife or children one can
maintain a
relationship with. Here is a man that earnestly believed that
capitalism could
work for him and it did work pretty good in the post WW II period.
Things
stated going to hell a very long time ago for the proletariat
majority. New
layers of American society is being ruined.
I think you will find that sort of thing to be
common among high tech workers. A lot
of them dream of becoming capitalists
and during the '90s boom enough
high tech workers did, for a while
succeed, in doing just that, or
at least enough did to make this
seem a plausible dream. That
came crashing down, starting
around 2000.
The real proletariat in America thinks out things very different,
and their
spontaneous drift to the right barely leads to terrorist acts on
this
level. Massive economic ruin does generate an initial response of
increased
family abuse, bouts of rage and individual suicide. Then depending
on the
ability of communist to impact the movement with a sense of
purpose, the
implosive subsides and becomes an outer explosion of activity.
I feel no sympathy for this man who drives an airplane into a
building
because he is angry with the system. Did he own the plane? This
angry man
thought thinks out as a little capitalist, rather than proletarians
still
clinging to bourgeois views.
He wasn't really even a little capitalist, he was
a wananbe at most. In reality, he was just
another contract programmer, and as such,
lacked the security and benefits that unionized
blue collar workers used to enjoy.
I agree that it is fucked up to see
exploited workers cling so relentlessly
to a petit bourgeois consciousness.
No human in their right mind, voluntarily works 100 hours a week,
unless
they earnestly believe that at some point they they can make it
and
retired in peace and wealth. This pursuit of wealth and making it
was once
called the American dream. Our bomber terrorist woke up to the
American
nightmare, millions having been living for a couple of decades.
Real time America on February 19, 2010 is in a profound crisis. 150
million Americans feel stress over layoffs and paying their bills
on a consistent
basis. Over 60 percent of Americans now live paycheck to paycheck.
A
record 20 million Americans qualified for unemployment insurance
benefits last
year, causing 27 states to run out of funds, with seven more also
expected
to go into the red within the next few months. In total, 40 state
programs
are expected to go broke. When you factor in all these uncounted
workers --
involuntary part-time and discouraged workers -- the
unemployment rate
rises from 9.7 percent to over 20 percent. In total, we now have
over 30
million U.S. citizens who are unemployed or underemployed. With a
prison
population of 2.3 million people, we now have more people
incarcerated than any
other nation in the world -- the per capita statistics are 700 per
100,000
citizens. In comparison, China has 110 per 100,000, France has 80
per
100,000, Saudi Arabia has 45 per 100,000. The prison industry is
thriving and
expecting major growth over the next few years. A recent report
from the
Hartford Advocate titled Incarceration Nation revealed that a
new prison
opens every week somewhere in America.
Over five million U.S. families have already lost their homes, in
total 13
million U.S. families are expected to lose their home by 2014, with
25
percent of current mortgages underwater. 1.4 million Americans
filed for
bankruptcy in 2009, a 32 percent increase from 2008. As
bankruptcies continue to
skyrocket, medical bankruptcies are responsible for over 60 percent
of
them, and over 75 percent of the medical bankruptcies filed are
from people
who have health care insurance.
Over 50 million people who need to use food stamps to eat, and a
stunning
50 percent of U.S. children will use food stamps to eat at some
point in
their childhoods. Approximately 20,000 people are added to this
total every
day. In 2009, one out of five U.S. households didn't have enough
money to
buy food. In households with children, this number rose to 24
percent, as the
hunger rate among U.S. citizens has now reached an all-time high.
The American government defines poverty for a family of four at
$32,000 a
year. 60% of the American working class makes $14 an hour which
equals
$29,120.00 based on working 52 weeks a year. Government statistics
place 60% of
