Late Capitalists: Oh no, we're not making enough money. To create more wealth, we're going to cut our workers wages and get them to more stuff, and charge customers more for it.
But oh no, they're mostly the same people, and with less wages to spend, they're buying less stuff. So we better raise prices more, and cut wages again.
(1/?)
Late Capitalists (cont'd): But oh no, now a lot of them are homeless, so they're not paying our mortgages for us. They can't afford to buy much food anymore either(if any).
But even though almost half the food they make for us is going in bins, we can't drop prices, or raise wages so they can afford to buy it. What if we don't make as much money?
(2/?)
Late Capitalists (cont'd): Now they're turning up in big crowds outside our mansions with pitchforks, looking surly, and grumbling ominously.
Have they no respect for wealth creators like us? After all, everything we did was in ruthless pursuit of making money. That's what wealth creation means, right?
(3/?)
Coda: Fuck you Late Capitalists. I've tried to peacefully coexist with you, the perfect being the enemy of the good and all that. I've tried to fit in with the rules of your world.
But you made that *impossible* to do in good conscience. So now, to quote the Infectious Grooves, all the rules have just gone out the window;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmMFWhT6h3U
You want to declare a class war on me and mine? Denigrate and starve us? Fuck you, it's on.
(4/4)
"Work makes a mockery of freedom. The official line is that we all have rights and live in a democracy. Other unfortunates who aren’t free like we are have to live in police states."
#BobBlack, 1991
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/bob-black-the-abolition-of-work
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"These victims obey orders or-else, no matter how arbitrary. The authorities keep them under regular surveillance. State bureaucrats control even the smaller details of everyday life. The officials who push them around are answerable only to higher-ups, public or private. Either way, dissent and disobedience are punished. Informers report regularly to the authorities. All this is supposed to be a very bad thing."
#BobBlack, 1991
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/bob-black-the-abolition-of-work
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"And so it is, although it is nothing but a description of the modern workplace. The liberals and conservatives and libertarians who lament totalitarianism are phonies and hypocrites. There is more freedom in any moderately de-Stalinized dictatorship than there is in the ordinary American workplace."
#BobBlack, 1991
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/bob-black-the-abolition-of-work
(3/3)
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