Michael Noire
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- Posted: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 04:42:42 +0000
WE talk about the haves and the have nots but we do not address the cold reality of human labor and the worth of any action. We do not approach with conviction the disproportionate distribution of resources for effort on the part of those who are industrious.
If a man burns 2500 calories baking loaves of bread, why is his 2500 calories considered 1 million times less valuable than the 2500 calories burned by an office worker? Why is the grade of effort of any man being of the same conditions, some how worth so very less that he is born into bondage and ensnared by the trappings of empty promises and led like a lamb into servitude?
Why is it that a young man and woman attending an ivy league university on their parents bank accounts are unable to comprehend why a poor laid off worker from a factory town would go ballistic in a shopping mall store full of goods that cost more than the month's salary he once earned and are buying these items like salad toppings at an all you can eat buffet?
I know we have lost sight of human worth. I do not believe it.
The poor envy politicians who earn 10 and 30 times their wages, yet the politicians beg after billionaires who dwarf their lifetime wages in mere weeks and months. These billionaires are but Jacks and Jokers to the net worth of old families sitting on the accumulated wealth of generations, overseeing boards of directors and international councils and using carefully worded contracts of lawyers to pretend to be "mere billionaires" - not even in the top 20, slithering under the radar of the mainstream while their masquerade always ends in another escapade of legitimized slavery and aggrandizement of debauchery.
Chattel is what the common man is to those who have trespassed the potential of human industry through clever and insidious means. How can you with a straight face talk about the student debt of some minimum wage worker and their need to pay back society for their "loans", much less the starving of Bangladesh and yet keep in mind the legitimacy of claims by persons such as Judith Rodin talking about unlocking $100,000,000,000,000.00 (100 trillion) worth of possibilities? Even the common man should be able to look to the simple billionaire and say "how is that man's labor worth 1000 times my own?"
The answer is sadly obvious and simple.
it isn't. No man's worth is so vast that it geometrically surpasses the value of another.
If a man burns 2500 calories baking loaves of bread, why is his 2500 calories considered 1 million times less valuable than the 2500 calories burned by an office worker? Why is the grade of effort of any man being of the same conditions, some how worth so very less that he is born into bondage and ensnared by the trappings of empty promises and led like a lamb into servitude?
Why is it that a young man and woman attending an ivy league university on their parents bank accounts are unable to comprehend why a poor laid off worker from a factory town would go ballistic in a shopping mall store full of goods that cost more than the month's salary he once earned and are buying these items like salad toppings at an all you can eat buffet?
I know we have lost sight of human worth. I do not believe it.
The poor envy politicians who earn 10 and 30 times their wages, yet the politicians beg after billionaires who dwarf their lifetime wages in mere weeks and months. These billionaires are but Jacks and Jokers to the net worth of old families sitting on the accumulated wealth of generations, overseeing boards of directors and international councils and using carefully worded contracts of lawyers to pretend to be "mere billionaires" - not even in the top 20, slithering under the radar of the mainstream while their masquerade always ends in another escapade of legitimized slavery and aggrandizement of debauchery.
Chattel is what the common man is to those who have trespassed the potential of human industry through clever and insidious means. How can you with a straight face talk about the student debt of some minimum wage worker and their need to pay back society for their "loans", much less the starving of Bangladesh and yet keep in mind the legitimacy of claims by persons such as Judith Rodin talking about unlocking $100,000,000,000,000.00 (100 trillion) worth of possibilities? Even the common man should be able to look to the simple billionaire and say "how is that man's labor worth 1000 times my own?"
The answer is sadly obvious and simple.
it isn't. No man's worth is so vast that it geometrically surpasses the value of another.