Re: American's time shortage

merasmus wrote:
> "Jack Steffen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
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> > "RH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > The following was copied from:
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> > > http://www.simpleliving.net/timeday/
> > >
> > > American's are putting  in longer hours on the job now than we did in
> > > the 1950s...
> > >
> > > In fact, we're working more than medieval peasants did, and more than
> > > the citizens of any other industrial country.
> > >
> > > Mandatory overtime is at near record levels, in spite of a recession.
> >
> > In spite of???  Anyone who has spent any amount of time really working for
> > a living, being paid hourly, knows that when the economy gets worse, the
> > overtime employers require *increases*. Why? When companies
> > lay people off , downsize, and institute hiring freezes, the work still has to be
> > done, and usually there are fewer people left to do it. Been there, done that.
> > You end up doing the work of several people, and are not paid any more for it.
> > The extra money is nice, but the tradeoff is that yes, you do have less time on
> > your hands.
> >
> > Jack
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> Ah Jack!  There *ARE* advantages to being a slave.  First, you are
> more valued than the ordinary wage laborer.  Someone has to *PAY* for
> you upfront.  Like livestock.  You become a true "human resource" that
> can be sold, so you want to maintain the value of that asset.  Second,
> you do not have to work that hard since everyone KNOWS slaves are
> "lazy".  But a wage earner?  Lay 'em off at the drop of a hat.  A
> "dime a dozen".  Throwaway people.  Monkeys for monkey work.  We get
> what we *PERMIT*, and what we deserve.  It is obvious the American
> people don't deserve much, is it not?  Sheep, Jack, livestock.  Baaah!

You raise some interesting points.  Wage slaves have few of the 
protections built into actual slavery.

For similar reasons cows are abundant but aurocs are extinct.

Bob