So I was reading an article on Mediaite about the president's pending speech on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and some tool just had to comment, "MLK would have slapped that bastard." Seriously? Is the internet just filled with shitbags pretending to be human?
This unwarranted and ridiculous hatred for a president whose primary goal has been to help those in need, to reverse injustice, and to bring some parity in this divided nation shows that it's not the president that's the problem, it's the embracing of ignorance and stupidity in our culture. As I said before, our culture has become more of a petri dish of bacteria. Cut it the fuck out.
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Intern = Slave
Let's take a look at two groups of workers people in power have the lowest regard for...
Intern: a sanitized word meaning SLAVE. These folks are often young, college educated, work long, often unpaid hours with no benefits, often derided, for the privilege of being a lackey for some bourgeoisie shitbag. I'm sure there are better stories for these people somewhere, but in my half century experience, most of those stories are pretty much how I described.
Restaurant Workers, otherwise known as wait staff, bussers, dishwashers, crew...these folks are not that much different from interns in that they are underpaid, often earning no more than 2.13 an hour plus tips (woo hoo, thank you Herman Cain for that travesty), derided, treated like crap, have no health insurance, and unless they look like Jennifer Lawrence, aren't exactly swimming in tip money.
THE PROBLEM
We have a tendency in this country to reward those who rule, and punish those who work for those who rule. It didn't used to be that way as much back in my day, but today, it's disgraceful to level of obscene, and unless it changes, HG Wells prediction of a schism of the human species, where one literally preys on the other as a source of food, will come true 800,000 years early.
Intern: a sanitized word meaning SLAVE. These folks are often young, college educated, work long, often unpaid hours with no benefits, often derided, for the privilege of being a lackey for some bourgeoisie shitbag. I'm sure there are better stories for these people somewhere, but in my half century experience, most of those stories are pretty much how I described.
Restaurant Workers, otherwise known as wait staff, bussers, dishwashers, crew...these folks are not that much different from interns in that they are underpaid, often earning no more than 2.13 an hour plus tips (woo hoo, thank you Herman Cain for that travesty), derided, treated like crap, have no health insurance, and unless they look like Jennifer Lawrence, aren't exactly swimming in tip money.
THE PROBLEM
We have a tendency in this country to reward those who rule, and punish those who work for those who rule. It didn't used to be that way as much back in my day, but today, it's disgraceful to level of obscene, and unless it changes, HG Wells prediction of a schism of the human species, where one literally preys on the other as a source of food, will come true 800,000 years early.
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