re: #43 Sol Berdinowitz

In their ideal world, all workers in America would line up outside the home depot every morning, while managers would show up with a flat bed truck and announce that they needed three accountants, an IT person, and two marketing reps that day, nine bucks an hour, take it or leave it…

Pretty much it, as their prophet David Barton makes clear in his attacks on the minimum wage. Part of the reason we haven’t had a revolution in this country is that we have not had enough seriously exploited proletarians to make a decent uprising. With wage earners being steadily and relentlessly reduced in status and income, that could change. The exploiters out here in the hinterland understand that, so they have created the “culture war” and various conspiracy theories to divert the ignorant masses from their own exploitation. The constant campaign to undermine public education could also be of help to them, since knowledge has a way of making the peasants think too much.