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rotenotes<a href="https://electricrequiem.com/tags/Wage-slavery" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wage-slavery</a> or <a href="https://electricrequiem.com/tags/starvation" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#starvation</a>? -- That's not a choice, it's a threat!

Otto Rask<a href="https://piipitin.fi/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Capitalism</a> <a href="https://piipitin.fi/tags/Poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Poverty</a> <a href="https://piipitin.fi/tags/Capitalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Capitalist</a> <a href="https://piipitin.fi/tags/Greed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Greed</a> <a href="https://piipitin.fi/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Propaganda</a> <a href="https://piipitin.fi/tags/WageSlavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WageSlavery</a>

Miguel Afonso CaetanoAlbert Einstein (1949): "Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society. This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population. Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights.The situation prevailing in an economy based on the private ownership of capital is thus characterized by two main principles: first, means of production (capital) are privately owned and the owners dispose of them as they see fit; second, the labor contract is free. Of course, there is no such thing as a pure capitalist society in this sense. In particular, it should be noted that the workers, through long and bitter political struggles, have succeeded in securing a somewhat improved form of the “free labor contract” for certain categories of workers. But taken as a whole, the present day economy does not differ much from “pure” capitalism."<a href="https://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism/</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Socialism</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Capitalism</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/WageSlavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WageSlavery</a>

at home in my headThe USA is a company town. In the company town model, workers worked for employers who supplied all their needs--for a price. Over time the wages would go down, and the costs of things would go up, until the workers were working to pay off debts to the very people paying their salaries, not to actually build their own wealth.The USA is a company town.Wealthy people "create jobs"--we work for them. They also sell or rent to us all the goods and services we need to survive. They have found they can charge anything now because they can market it as "affordable monthly payments"--and ignore the actual cost. Cars, Houses, Educations, Healthcare, we can't afford. Everything for rent or on loan--with interest of course.Before we know it, we're not working to build wealth, but to pay of debts to our employers, as they funnel us into the need for things like cars and cell phones and 401Ks.The USA is a company town.<a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#capitalism</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/exploitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#exploitation</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/wageslavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wageslavery</a>

Liam O'Mara IV, PhDHuman beings have limited capacity for stress -- social, financial, etc. And as demands on our time rose, and spaces for creative expression and true freedom of action fell, we entered a cycle of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/anxiety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anxiety</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/depression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#depression</a>. So many of our health complaints are tied to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WageSlavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WageSlavery</a>.

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