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

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Dec 18 14:18:49 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.

This goes way back in the American class system - the only hope for escape from the pressures of working class life is by becoming a business owner.

Doug



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