On Jun 30, 2010, at 6:38 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> If you are unemployed, one of the rather important secondary effects is
> the demoralization of sitting around doing nothing. Someone says if you
> do a little work for me I'll pay for your video game time. Both the work
> and the play seem a better deal than sitting home staring at daytime tv.
Well yeah. But I took this as yet another example of how the working class - and not only in the U.S. - has barely uttered a peep of protest while unemployment soared and bankers got billions. It's fucking depressing.