Patience

The whole history of modern industry

Dennoch zeigt die ganze Geschichte der modernen Industrie, daß das Kapital, wenn ihm nicht Einhalt geboten wird, ohne Gnade und Barmherzigkeit darauf aus ist, die ganze Arbeiterklasse in diesen Zustand äußerster Degradation zu stürzen.

Tutta la storia dell’industria moderna mostra che il capitale, se non gli vengono posti dei freni, lavora senza scrupoli e senza misericordia per precipitare tutti i lavoratori nella più profonda degradazione.

The whole history of modern industry shows that capital, if not checked, will unscrupulously and ruthlessly work to cast down the whole working class to the utmost state of degradation.

 (Karl Marx)

The interests of the investing minority

In the press, which is owned by rich men, the interests of the investing minority are always identified (doubtless in perfectly good faith) with those of the nation as a whole.

(Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means, 1937)

Dear citizen, please SHUT UP!

"Work makes us submit to power. The person in charge doesn’t have to care about our feelings. We have exchanged our right to communicate our pain for a monthly paycheck."

http://thephilosophersmail.com/capitalism/why-youre-probably-not-enjoying-your-job-very-much/

Oops!

During an interview on PBS Newshour, on September 18, 2007, to the question by Jim Lehrer: “What is the proper relationship, what should be the proper relationship between a chairman of the Fed and a president of the United States?”

Alan Greenspan declared: “Well, first of all, the Federal Reserve is an independent agency, and that means, basically, that there is no other agency of government which can overrule actions that we take. So long as that is in place and there is no evidence that the administration or the Congress or anybody else is requesting that we do things other than what we think is the appropriate thing, then what the relationships are don't, frankly, matter.”

Transcript available here: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business-july-dec07-greenspan_09-18/

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM2vMHx46ww

Sufferable evils

“all experience has shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”

US Declaration of Independence.

To learn who rules over you