[lbo-talk] fat lazy Americans

James Heartfield Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk
Wed Mar 7 14:49:25 PST 2007


Carl writes

"IMO the US has a fat, lazy-minded, self-indulgent population because it serves the interests of capitalism as a consumer society to make it so."

To which opinion you are no doubt entitled, but that would be reinforcing my argument that working class consumption in the US has not been squeezed as much, and hours not as stretched as much as is being said - though I don't think I would put it in quite the same terms.



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