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In reply to the discussion: Dunkin Donut CEO Who Makes $4,887 an Hour Outraged at $15 Minimum Wage [View all]AOR
(692 posts)you speak in the tongues of the lifetime social scab. The tongues of a right wing libertarian. Attacking me personally are we ? That is your argument ? Do you know me ? No, you know shit about me.
As I explained to another some time ago who was using your same labor-baiting and social scab tactics. It's not about me. It's about the workers as a whole. There is nothing in your existence that is not dependent on the labor of others now and before you came into existence. Do you grow all your own food ? Do you make all your own clothes ? Where did your "home" come from? Even if you built your own home you did not make the materials needed. Other workers did. Even wiping your ass is set in motion by the labor of others as evidenced by modern toilet paper... unless you are still using leaves... in which case you're excused from the herd on that count and may call yourself "self-made." Every single thing you do is social and depends on a collective society of labor. Once someone realizes that fact... solidarity with the demands of all workers should be a given rather than the idiotic and completely nonfactual notion of "self-made" and look at ME ME ME and MY "skill set."
Your ability to live relies on and is a function of many other workers - who are set in motion - whether you realize it or not. You're confused on who is doing all the producing that allows the "owners" to build capital and a business on the stolen surplus labor of others. Capital cannot exist without the theft of wage labor under the capitalist modes of production. The business owner is ENTITLED TO NOTHING. Not business loans at a "cut rate", not tax breaks, and certainly not entitled to anyone's surplus labor for profit. The big business owner is nothing more than a parasite - who in most cases does absolutely nothing - after an initial idea is brought forth. Not needed in any way shape or form for production of anything.
Many people have "ideas." Without the labor of others no "ideas" are implemented.That's what you fail to realize. You will not win the "debate" nor the "argument" when it comes to labor vs capital. The whole argument and defense of the parasite business owner revolves around two words and those are "cheap labor." Labor is entitled to ALL it creates. That you think capitalists are ENTITLED to cheap labor is beyond laughable. Any idea you come up with WILL DIE - without the labor of others - unless you can produce everything needed for your idea yourself. Save your libertarian horseshit for the gullible.
Fuck the owners today, tomorrow, and every day into the future. If these parasites can not give back crumbs... they don't belong in business... and that's being gentle... even under capitalist terms. There is a change coming down the pike my friend one way or the other. For too long the struggling workers have paid deference to these parasite owners. They will pay now in a nice way or they will pay later in a not so nice way. History tells us this.
As far as automation goes... you miss the point again in your right wing haze in defense of the owners. Without labor no automation is possible. Someone has to build the automation. You lose again and miss the point. The working class will have no problem taking over the automation and distributing the result of that production in a more equitable manner. We built it. We own it. Labor is entitled to ALL it creates.
Even capitalists of the of the past understand where labor stands in the equation.
"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much higher consideration."
-- Abraham Lincoln