[lbo-talk] Re: worker freedom of choice

[Maria Gilmore]

As I see it, American society has huge "dependency" issues, unlike other
rich capitalist countries in Europe.   I think that's one very big reason we
don't have a guaranteed income, or national health care.   We USers are
throughly indoctrinated to believe that to be in any way dependent on others
is the ultimate horror.   Europeans in general don't seem to feel that way,
rather, they accept that dependency is a normal part of life...we are
dependent when we are very young and again very old, or infirm, and anyway,
we are all interdependent thruout our lives.  How can you be in favor of a
guaranteed income yet make not being "dependent" on others a point of great
pride?  What is so intrinsically admirable about hyper-individualism?

Maria

PS the Schaivo controversy has, of course, a great deal to do with these
issues also.

Tully wrote:


> I don't think the right hates the working class.  Too many of them are
> working class. <...> there was great pride in not being
> dependent on anyone and even those who were on aid were trying hard
> to get off it with encouragement and support from others.  I had to
> admire that.
>
> --tully
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