[lbo-talk] volume

Mike Ballard swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au
Wed Jun 25 22:49:10 PDT 2003


Michael P wrote:

"When I lived in Oakland, the big crack dealer with many employees was Felix Mitchell. At his trial, he laid how how he had applied modern corporate management principles (don't remember if he mentioned TQM or Tom Peters though!), division of labor, and was just following the American Dream."

Al Capone said:

"I make my money by supplying a public demand. If I break the law, my customers who number hundreds of the best people in Chicago, are as guilty as I am. The only difference is that I sell and they buy. Everybody calls me a racketeer. I call myself a businessman."

Alexander Berkman wrote:

"Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you, just as the highwayman's gun. You must live.... You can't work for yourself; under the capitalist industrial system you must work for an employer. The factories, machinery, and tools belong to the employing class, so you must hire yourself out to that class in order to work and live. Whatever you work at, whoever your employer may be, it always comes down to this: you must work for him.... You are compelled.

"The law says it is 'free agreement'. Just as well might the highwayman say that you 'agreed' to give up your valuables. The only difference is that the highwayman's way is called stealing and robbery, and is forbidden by law. While the capitalist way is called business, industry, profit making, and is protected by law."

Wobbly greetings, Mike B)

===== ***************************************************************** "My sister, your grain - its beer is tasty, my comfort.." - Song of Songs; Sumeria, 2100 B.C.

As to the power of Egyptian brews Aristotle observed:

"They who have drunk beer...fall on their back...for they who get drunk on other intoxicating liquors fall on all parts of their body...it is only those who get drunk on beer who fall on their backs and lie with their faces upwards."

"She brews good ale, and thereof comes the proverb, Blessing of your heart, you brew good ale."

- Shakespeare

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