| You're taking this from the wrong angle, Section 8. Employment for employment's sake, maybe, but just because a company keeps an army of slave wagers doesn't make it impenetrable to criticism. Walmart employs 1.3 million people at an average wage of $7.50, and that's a crying shame. Anything that hinders the prevalence of this outrage of humanity concerning the working class is a good thing. You can't depend on the private sector to give back anything in terms of livelihood, comfort, or even a grasp on life, because to them we don't exist.
If we want to utilize this labor in a way that's beneficial to society at large and my sanity in small, then why not have the feds cut more checks to the support of the arts? Bush stopped that federal funding (as did he for a lot of things, including subsidies for tertiary education, grr), as had he destroyed labor relations and the power of the working man - which is why you have $4 an hour "labor pools" given only 15 seconds downtime between coldcalls - and it makes me so angry I can't see straight.
We're cheapening our entire culture to the point of ludicrousy - I dare say that in our holy venture for the almighty dollar, we've lost all humanity in the process - and your well-meaning but misguided attack further drives home the point.
. . . whenever any government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. |