Killing the Middle Class; How the Corporatocracy Sets the Rules of the "Game" To Create Peons

[Swede]

In other words labor is part of the game of business, and one of the first goals of the game of business is to "perpetuate" the existence of the laborers themselves. That's the natural price. If businesses want to keep their workers, according to Ricardo, they must make sure that the market price of labor is at least as much as the natural price of labor. And the natural price is the "subsistence" price-- just enough to survive-- which brings us back to Dickens's world.


http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_thom_har_061031_killing_the_middle_c.htm

[thingfisher]

1. This is an article well worth reading.

However, one premise of the article seems to be that the demise of the middle class and American labor in general is due simply to corporate greed. When the author cites the example of Henry Ford upping his wage in order to provide a larger market for his cars, he highlights a logic that seems to be lost on the current corporate managers.

The destruction of the middle class does not seem to concern contmeporary corpratocracies. Of course, Ford was living in a time when there was no global economy as we have today thanks in large part to former president Clinton's willingness to sign the various "free trade" agreements of the late 90's.

This is a part of the Clinton legacy that many DUers seem to forget, but it is something that needs to be discussed honestly. Democrats are dupposed to be the champions of the average guy, the workers and yet the destructive trade agreements that have led to so much off shoring and job loss were signed onto under Clinton. Was it not he who told us that we would get globalization whether we wanted it or not?

What was begun under Clinton has only accellerated and metastisized under Bush. So there seems to be some congruency between the two parties and their vision of the world. America seems to be in an economic free fall. It is not apparent to the casual observer or the well to do or the gainfully employed, all appears well on the surface. It would not take much to destroy the economy and create an atmosphere conducive to the restructuring of the world economic
system that such a collapse would undoubtedly require.

I am suggesting that this scenario is exaxtly what is desired and what is being planned for. Yes, it is the mother of all conspiracy theories, I suppose. Some might call it Ordo ab Chao (order out of chaos)becaus desperate people are more compliant and malleable to new ideas when they are in shock, cold and hungry.

The elite planners will as usual be insulated from any suffering and it is they who will delineate the New World Order primarily for their own benefit. The "will of the people" will not figure into the equation.

[EC]

2. Not just Dickens, De Sade wrote quite alot

about the "expendable"human resources of the rich....Eat the Rich...