A militant INDEPENDENT democratic socialist's attempt to expose the truth of our culture – in all its rich irony and absurdity.
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Monday, March 23, 1998
Watching the thieving worker
" You know the bartenders are not going to like it ", Mike Mogdam,
president of Barmate Corp. said in the N.Y. times. Mogdam invented
a computer guided electronic system that lets bar owners track every
drop of booze.
Why should bar tenders like such an affront to their integrity ?
It is no surprise that in enterprises where workers are most exploited
- bars and restaurants - the owners are most suspicious of being robbed.
When this does occur it can best be described as a " redistribution of
the surplus product ".
Are workers in general getting RICH nowadays at the expense of the
capitalist owners ? Just the opposite is happening. And government is
doing very little to correct the injustice,
From the government workers have been getting this message : " We
owe you nothing ! "
From business workers have been getting the same contemptuous message:
" We owe you nothing ! "
The law of life, of nature -of course - is that the workers owe themselves
their fair share of the economic pie - which in theory at least ( remember
the labor theory of value ? ) may be the WHOLE PIE !
Marx said long ago that " vampire like, Capital wishes to squeeze
every drop of blood from the working class ".
It is nothing less than incredible to hear owners of bars and
restaurants whine about how they are being cheated by the " low-life "
help. Of course the wages paid out guarantee a " low life " for the help.
Kids are exploited abominably in the fast food chains especially. They
should have UNION protection and health benefits. No more minimum
wage for such blatant exploitation !
A Labor Party should be created to monitor every drop of wealth the
capitalists steal from the workers !
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