From: "danceswithcarp" <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us>
Subject: Re: Electra Chair
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 16:56:10 -0500



From: <LindyJenn-AT-aol.com>

> But then.....where would all these
> fast food places be if they didn't have the brainless people to work them.

Ah-ta-ta, dear Jenn.  the wirk (WIRK?), may be brainless but the people
aren't necessarily so.  Many have simply been displaced by technology and
the migration of higher-income labor-intensive jobs to second-wirld
countries.  Not too many years ago a lot of the older fast-food emplyees had
factory jobs and maintained reasonably affluent wirking class lifestyles.
When the jobs left for other places these people were "too old" to get
similar jobs at at other corporate sweatshops so they were relegated to the
fast food industry.

One of the great fallacies of capital is that we are all created equal in
ability, both physcal and intellectual and that NOT "making it" is somehow
the fault of the failee.   As anarchists we must recognize this fallacy and
confront the system that rewards people on their ability to perform certain
tasks and punishes those who can't.  Not everyone can be a software engineer
or a stockbroker or a entrepeneur.  To assume that people--especially the
older people--who wirk (WIRK?) in any area of low tecnological skills are
somehow less valuable or able than others is buying right into capital's
program of class division.

I knew you knew that, but I thought it wirth refreshing your memory.


 carpo