File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2003/anarchy-list.0302, message 347


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

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