From: "Bryan Moore" <bryanamoore-AT-hotmail.com> Subject: Re: History, Curious, eh wot? Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 08:38:19 +0000 Joacim wrote: >In this industrialised world, only a fraction of the produced value is >actually the result of human labour. A "worker" is someone pushing a button >on a machine, a machine not seldom powered, directly or indirectly, by >oil; and the "worker's" main problem is therefore overweight, because he >eats more than he actually works. There are no workers and so there is no >"working class". There's only the "greedy, lazy, fat bastards class". ;) Trust me, Joacim, people who have to work mind-numbing jobs, sitting in chairs for 10 hours a day, are not in a good position to stay healthy. When machines do the skilled work, the people are left with button-pushing--one of the calling cards of this fked up situation, I feel, is that people are so much less skilled now than when there were no machines. >When a satirical cartoonist a hundered years ago made a drawing of a >"capitalist", he made him really fat. Nowadays I hear overweight mentioned >as a "poverty syndrome". Thus speaks those who have completely lost the >perspective on what poverty is. Yes, surely the person from 100 years ago has a much better perspective on the current situation than the contemporary speaker. You're right. Bryan _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
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