The Yankee Coolly
Yes, they're bringing it all back home. Welcome to the new American workplace
standard: the sweatshop. Oh, don't be fooled by the environmental standards.
That's because the ultra rich live here too.
But that will change when or if the rich relocate. You better get used to living
in boarding-house style dormitories, with barely enough to afford some protein
powder, a fiber cookie and a vitamin pill as your daily fare, and only enough
credit to afford a change of work clothes.
They won't want you to retire. Life expectancy among the worker cast will be 40
years of age, and then it's the mass grave crematorium and not enough status for
a marker -- so sorry, thank you very much. I've seen this before in my visits to
the developing world. Seriously. I mean, what were you thinking about when you
bought those cheap clothes? And you're next, buddy. The overseas stuff was just
an experiment. The sweatshop worker is actually fortunate if he or she lives to
be 40.
That's right, I've been in the "Third" World. I've seen it. You could still be
self-employed. How about a rickshaw or a street vendor selling goat meat
shiskebabs in peanut sauce? Forget art or writing, unless you've got a handle on
state propaganda. The new state: Private Mega-Billion-Dollar businesses.
What about freedom and democracy? What? I thought you knew. Nice social
experiment. Died of apathy. I guess you never noticed. I guess nobody noticed
the bloodless coup that took place after the assassination of Kennedy. It's all
part of what I call "the Nimrod factor". It seems that the only reason why
people get freedom is so that key people in the crowd can then abuse that
freedom in order to take over. Look on the bright side. We're just fortunate
that they were so incompetent that it took them a couple of hundred years to get
this far.
Hey, wake up, coolly. Where have you been anyway?
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Welcome to the new American workplace standard: the sweatshop.
26 March, 2005
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