[lbo-talk] meanwhile, the US working class......

joanna bujes jbujes at covad.net
Sat Dec 18 13:46:16 PST 2004


John Thornton wrote:


>
> In spite of all this Cobbs goal is own her own Temp Service so she can
> help hundreds of people have an even more marginal existence than hers
> while she profits from it? This is warped. She wants to make a $350 a
> month car payment and pay $400 for health-insurance and she aspires to
> pay someone maybe $800 to $1000 a month while hiring them out to a
> company for maybe one and a half times that and pocket the difference.
> Something is seriously wrong with this aspiration in my view. Am I
> being harsh on her? I don't think so.

Well, it's just the way the system works. You either eat lunch or you are lunch. She probably figures that if her employees are "enterprising" enough, they will eventually figure out the exploitation game themselves. If not, then clearly, they are "losers."

Lovely system....

Joanna



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