[lbo-talk] Jobless future?

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Tue Feb 23 06:37:16 PST 2010


Sandy Harris wrote:
>
>
> Sometimes, though, it is true. I was in the UK a few years back
> at a time when there was much moaning about unemployment.
>
> Talked to an Aussie lass who'd been in the country two weeks
> and had three part-time jobs. Granted, they were all badly
> paid & hard work, but she was making enough to live in some
> comfort & save for a summer in Greece.

She had been forced to 'exchange' her humanity for an existence as a mechanism which merely reproduced itself from day to day. So that's what's wrong with the unemployed: they have this silly notion that they are human beings.

Carrol



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