[lbo-talk] Moore's Sicko Analysis

[Joseph Catron]

At the risk of sounding like a shill for class mobility, I think it's worth
keeping in mind that Howard Schultz grew up in a public housing project in
Brooklyn.  While I can't know what goes on inside his head, I imagine his
class consciousness might be a little different than that of an old-money
brat like Bill Ford.  Maybe Schultz doesn't resent such people, but I doubt
he identifies himself with them as closely as Ford might with, say, Bush.

On 7/20/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:

On Jul 20, 2007, at 9:01 PM, Auguste Blanqui wrote:
>
> > What do you think is holding them up?  The head of Starbucks has
> > also been
> > making a lot of comments about how upset he is over his high employee
> > premiums.
>
> I think it's a broader class interest in keeping American workers
> weak, scared, and dependent. Trying to find literal things like
> interlocking board memberships seems like vulgar Marxism (in the
> debased sense).