BS: My thought for Aug 20, 2008

Subject: BS: My thought for Aug 20, 2008
From: GUEST,Jack the Sailor
Date: 20 Aug 08 - 08:16 AM

Peter T. talked about the environment and how with all of the crap living in us we are the environment for many creatures.

But are we microbes in larger creatures? I am often struck by the similarities between human institutions a biological life.

Corporations consuming resources and shitting out pollution and products. People think they are in control but the nature of the beast leaves little free choice. Corporations gain an advantage grow and die. Sometimes scavengers pick their bones, sometimes they are swallowed whole. Sometimes invasive species with evolutionary advantages upset local ecologies.

Toyota and Honda, BMW and Mercedes, sleeker, faster able to better breed new product are slowly starving the big three just as the Dingo displaced Australian pouched predators.

As corporations outsource their lifesblood more and more as supply chains shrink and fewer and fewer people do a larger share of the work, I wonder, how long before the owners of capital consider us the parasites?

Subject: RE: BS: My thought for Aug 20, 2008
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 20 Aug 08 - 08:40 AM

The problem is the owners of the capital don't want to share it with anyone else. When will they realize that at some point there will be no one to buy their goods?

They don't want to pay their fair share of taxes, they don't want to pay to clean up after themselves or find a use for their waste products...

They only care about a cheap supply of workers whom they've turned into a commodity, to be plugged in where needed and discarded when the need changes.

Sorry for the rant, but I've just finished reading "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" by Greg Palast.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: My thought for Aug 20, 2008
From: SharonA
Date: 20 Aug 08 - 10:54 AM

Jack, whaddaya mean "how long BEFORE the owners of capital consider us the parasites?" Don't they already consider us that?

Then again, they're the ones sucking the capital from us, so I guess that makse them the parasites. They call us "consumers" but who is consuming whom?

Subject: RE: BS: My thought for Aug 20, 2008
From: kendall
Date: 20 Aug 08 - 02:45 PM

I guess they never heard of Abe Lincoln and his answer to this question:

"Which is more important, labor or capital"?
Abe, "Capital is the result of, and could not exist without labor. Therefore, labor is more important."

Subject: RE: BS: My thought for Aug 20, 2008
From: Peter T.
Date: 20 Aug 08 - 06:20 PM

I think it is more likely that we are inside the Great Earth, and that it is sort of like the whale in Pinocchio -- one day, burp!!!

yours,

Peter T.