Noam Chomsky on class warfare: The rich think worker insecurity is a good thing

[Jefferson23]

Noted leftist thinker and pioneering linguist Noam Chomsky recently sat down at the University of California, Santa Barbara, for a wide-ranging discussion titled “Propaganda Vs. Reality.”

The host of the event, Professor Jan Nederveen Pieterse, began by noting that there would be, the next day, “a party celebrating the 1 percent.”

“We live in an era,” he continued, “when Hollywood celebrates idiots as culture heroes — The Great Gatsby, The Wolf of Wall Street. So is there good news for the 99 percent, and [if there isn't] what kind of news would you be looking for?” Pieterse asked.

“The good news is that there are people like you,” Chomsky replied. “People committed to overcoming the narrowness of the spectrum of political discussion and the enormous oppression and inequities of society. That there are people trying to end the extremely ominous threat of nuclear war or environmental catastrophe — that is good news.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/23/noam-chomsky-on-class-warfare-the-rich-think-worker-insecurity-is-a-good-thing/

[Leme]

1. Political instability..no

The rich think worker insecurity is a good thing...yes

[rock]

2. Which flies in the face of Dr Deming's teachings

That's William Edwards Deming: The American Who Taught the Japanese About Quality (see Wikipedia for entry). This was during the period when the Japanese clearly produced a superior quality car to the the US. Managers make the decisions, workers do the work. If there's something wrong, it's the management's fault; the workers can merely do what they're told. Stability and security are the bedrock for good workers which is itself a necessity for quality results. Nearly all the companies I ever worked for were anti-Deming in practice, even the ones that professed to be ones that were practicing Deming methodologies!