Be Your Own Boss!

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[stray cat]

1. One benefit to unemployment - you are your own boss

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. What, no ex governor kits?? What the heck?? n/t

[Coyote_Bandit]

3. Sadly

this is where most of the job creation in the near future is going to come from. It is really a missed opportunity that we are throwing trillions of dollars at multinational corporations without doing much of anything to encourage the creation and growth of small business.

But then I forget that those multinational corporations who finance the campaigns and egos of our elected officials - and their thirst for position and the power and prosperity it brings - are far more important than the flesh and blood citizens who populate this nation.

[datasuspect]

4. this is what the republicans envisioned as early as 1994

the gingrichian transformation from the employed class to the contract services/labor class.

"a nation of subcontractors."

[Coyote_Bandit]

5. Personally

I'd rather work for myself than prostitute myself to the corporate world. Been there and done that. I realize that self-employment is not a choice suitable for everyone. But I sure as hell wish I could get some support for my own efforts. But government and politicians support big business and workers preferb to work for big business because of the benefits (and often the wages) they can offer and customers prefer big box stores to locally owned business. Sometimes I think we are deserving of being servants to our corporate overlords.

[datasuspect]

6. it's past that point

the american psyche is so inured to marketing and television, that they passively accept them as a given. a default position.

we are given the marketing that's approved for our consumption, and much of it has a message inherent suitable to influence public opinion through repetitive exposure in news broadcasts, reality programming, and lifestyle porn. this message is pro-corporate, right wing, and repressive in nature.

there are no campaigns to question the assumptions of a medium through the medium itself. hardly any discussions as to the truth or falsity of newscasts, for example.

in other words, yes, we are getting what we either deserve, are too lazy to counteract, or skillfully programmed to believe certain things.