Obamacare "the worst thing since slavery"?... perhaps this IS an apt metaphor. [View all]

[yoyossarian]

Back in the good ol' antideluvian days of yore, slaves were sold as chattel and made to work the cotton fields throughout the American South. Most of these slave owners, though they could be cruel and abusive and even murderous at times, were often quite sober-minded capitalists who wanted to maximize their profits first and foremost, but were still smart enough to recognize the basic physical needs of their work force... so they provided them food, shelter, and MEDICAL CARE when needed.
For the last 30 years or so, the new brand of corporatist slave owners of America have chosen to ignore this last... because nowadays slaves are plentiful, they come in every color now; and it just turns out to be a lot more profitable to simply work them to death. There's always plenty more waiting to snag a good slave spot out there. And they are ALL very eager to please. Most of them don't even KNOW they are slaves, and they still believe they can rise in an economy dominated by a very small, utterly insane and insatiable group of power-mad pirate kings who tend by and large to treat their dogs better than they do most of these desperate and doomed workers.